On rare occasions you find an honest article in the NYTimes, (a major source of disinformation, false data and leaked national secrets). This one by David Brooks is exceptional, based on Yuval Levin's article last month in the genuinely honest Weekly Standard.
Remember, the Left has been in historic retrograde since 1959, the peak of statist power when 90% of the world was socialist or communist. Europe is our future on the current trajectory and Europe has no future.