It is interesting that liberals have become more and more European, and have oriented themselves toward Western European comparisons, just as Europe itself is disintegrating. They have castigated conservatives for being provincial and prided themselves on being internationalists. But international means China, Japan, India, Indonesia, and Singapore now. Europe still has plenty of juice and will for a long time. "There's a great deal of ruin in a nation," as Adam Smith said. But the world is turning, and the new version is not well understood by either conservatives or liberals.
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