RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Sweeping The Chessboard. “But changing the rules is tacit admission Plan A has failed. Nobody’s talking about a ‘rules based international system’ any more because changing the rules is Plan B. The progressives are already creating their own world order to replace the old world order. The system Hillary hoped to lead is gone. . . . In this context the spate of proposals to change the rules — lower the voting age, abolish the electoral college, expand the Supreme Court and spend trillions on a Green New Deal — should come as no surprise. They are the domestic equivalent of building a brand new America. Although they come at a destabilizing price it is one ideologues are willing to pay since their vision is imperative enough. After all, to paraphrase Recep Erdogan ‘the rules are like a tram ride: when you reach your stop, you get off.'”

Plus: “If one were to predict between comity and authoritarianism in the coming years the odds would favor authoritarianism. Never has so much naked ambition disguised itself as virtue and the more loudly political factions proclaim they’re out to save the world the more ruthless they are likely to be. Liberty will come under assault from the banner of tolerance, fascism will advance in the guise of grievance.”