JoAnn Wypijewski: Labor in the Dawn of Empire Grover Norquist, part of the Bush team's activist light artillery from his redoubt at Americans for Tax Reform, was recently asked just what is the fundamental goal of the right in the current period.
"The McKinley era", he replied, "absent the protectionism. You're looking at the history of the country for the first 120 years, up until Teddy Roosevelt, when the socialists took over. The income tax, the death tax, regulation--all that" presumably must go.
That is where the enemies of labor would have us on this May Day of 2003: peering backward, at the abyss the nineteenth century.