WHAT WERE THOSE SHARED IDEALS AGAIN? Matt Taibbi: After Romanian Election Mess, The West’s Foundation is Crumbling.
To be more accurate, it is being revealed that the West’s foundation was replaced a while ago by bureaucracy and cronyism. The hysterical reaction to “populism” is based on a quite reasonable fear of what the populace will do when it finds out what has been done to it.