Free Republic

FOR THE respectable men running western Europe’s three biggest countries, misery is heaped upon misery. All are presiding over stagnant living standards and declining global influence. In Britain and France their rivals from the populist right are itching to take power (even the Alternative for Germany, or the AfD, may win a couple of state elections next year). And America, their key ally, has just accused them of hastening Europe towards what it calls “civilisational erasure”. Those three leaders also warn of a catastrophe—if the parties of the populist right should triumph. Friedrich Merz, Germany’s chancellor, describes his government as...

Former CNN anchorman Frank Sesno said Sunday that sour-grapes post-election rants by New York Times columnists Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman show that they are "out of touch" with regular Americans who voted for George Bush in droves. Asked about the bitter-sounding Dowd and Krugman tirades, Sesno told CNN's "Reliable Sources": "Some of the folks who are doing this writing are just as much out of touch with the red states, and America outside the elite Eastern seaboard and pockets in the West, as the Democrats." On Friday, Krugman had written that Bush is "a radical" who leads "a coalition...