The left's eyeing your home

Matt Welch says the left wants your house:

And we mustn't have that, even if it means razing an entire black neighborhood for a shopping mall that never gets built. That's exactly what happened in Indio in 1993, when more than 90 apartments and homes were bulldozed for an extension of the Indio Fashion Mall that never happened. Obscenely, the new owner of the property is pressuring the city to once again clear out two nearby churches to restart the project.

Eminent domain for private development is nothing more than a market shortcut and nothing less than government-sanctioned bullying of the people who least deserve it. Just ask the former residents of Chavez Ravine and Bunker Hill. If Democrats talk themselves into supporting this noxious practice only because Republicans oppose it, or because they aren't satisfied with the taxes generated by the mom-and-pop stores, they will get the electoral results they deserve.

This really isn't a left or right issue for the most part,it's whoever can control the local politicians to short-circuit the normal market process.