> There have been times when expropriating the expropriators - and not
> normal style expropriation of the producers - was popular in the
> U.S., but it seems like it was always a minority view. The late 19th
> century, for example - but even so, the Populists couldn't win a
> presidential election.
As landlords never tire of whining, rent control is an expropriation of their property's productive value - and I don't know of a single city or state government that wouldn't leap to abolish it if it weren't tremendously popular.