So dissatisfaction with the western world's political leadership isn't, after all, coming solely from the anti-immigrant, isolationist, xenophobic right?  Where has Doug Saunders been for the past half-decade?  Does he live in a cave, and is no internet connection available to him there?  Does he actually read any of the books he so glibly cites in his analyses?

Perhaps the developments lately impinging on his consciousness do seem "extraordinary and unexpected" to him and his colleagues; who knows anymore what constitutes "conventional wisdom" for them?  I'm hardly alone among 'leftists' in being more concerned about the increasing irrelevance of mainstream media, in particular its frank abandonment of journalism for unapologetic forays into social engineering, than I am about "dark-skinned outsiders."  The tenacity with which the Doug Saunders clones of the world contrive to remain oblivious of the readerships they're supposedly informing is what's truly terrifying.