Wow. This anonymous author truly doesn’t “get it”.
He or she is wrong about so many things and on so many levels, its hard to even pick where to start.
At least the article serves as a reminder to me why I stopped reading the Economist years ago.
Oh, he gets it.
It’s the editorial view.
The recent "journo-list" scandal calls all these anonymous columns into question.
There was a fiction that they represented the considered sense of the magazine or some experienced old wise man.
But now we know that they're churned out by propagandists.
Ditto. This reads like a David Cameron-Tory party take on the Tea Party. Talk about irrelevant.