I generally try to avoid reading whatever the latest "must-read" article happens to be because they generally seem part of the pageant of hand-wringing that every week forgets the article from last week in favor of the must-read du jour. But for some reason, I bit the bullet and read Anne Applebaum's much-too-long article in The Atlantic, "A Warning From Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come." And boy I wish I hadn't.

Anne Applebaum, a "winner" under the former neo-liberal regime, is slowly waking to the fact that many people weren't winners, and that these "losers" are kind of mad about it. Worse yet, she's now even losing some faith in the fairness of neo-liberal meritocracy.

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