Greenfield is brilliant, as always, in this article, typically correct in all of his analyses, and never more so than in his statement above. The left has turned this country into a western version of the Soviet Union, without the violence against its people. So far.
I agree; he is the very best right-writer today. But I did take issue with his statement "Much of Europe now favors less federalism...[whereas] The United States has expanded its federal government dramatically..." I believe this is an incorrect use of the word "federalism", which originally meant "a system of government in which power is divided between a national (federal) government and various regional governments." I think he meant to say "centralized" government, or "government concentrated in DC", since the entire thrust of recent events has been to shrink or countermand local governments. As examples, the Holder DOJ prosecuted the State of Arizona for trying to uphold existing Federal statutes on illegal immigration; and federal judges have been overturning traditional marriage statutes enacted by state legislatures or referenda, and so on.