“[A]nti-Americanism was a boutique enterprise, revealed as such when the U.S. was the most desirable destination of the world’s migrating poor and its popular culture had swept the globe. It is always surreal to read Mexico City elites slurring the United States as millions of illegal aliens risk their lives to cross our borders and escape the corruption and racism of their home country. Things are changing, however, both here and abroad. Thousands of American troops have left Europe. Its denizens now sense that the American people no longer wish to subsidize their defense only to earn ingratitude. The E.U. dream of heaven on earth may be mired in high taxes, low growth, high unemployment, and demographic and entitlement time bombs — not the sort of platform from which to hector a supposedly sinking U.S.” — Historian Victor Davis Hansen, writing in the American Enterprise magazine.