I have begun going through a pile of clippings that badly need sorting through. Some clippings date back months, and some even a couple of years. That doesn't mean they are out of date. Hannan's warning was printed in the Wall Street Journal a year ago. He's a Brit who understands Obama's goals, and sees them as a program of comprehensive Europeanization. If asked, Hannan says
He (Obama) would say he wants a fairer America, a more tolerant America, a less arrogant America, a more engaged America. When you prize away the cliché, what these phrases amount to are higher taxes, less patriotism, a bigger role for state bureaucracies, and a transfer of sovereignty to global institutions.
He is not pursuing a set of random initiatives but a program of comprehensive Europeanization: European health care, European welfare, European carbon taxes, European day care, European college education, even a European foreign policy, based on engagement with supranational technocracies, nuclear disarmament and a reluctance to deploy forces overseas.
Hannan's article spells out how disastrous such a program has proven in Europe and how it will prove the same in America. Read the whole article. It should be noted that his essay is adapted from his short, 48 page booklet, "Why America Must Not Follow Europe."