Treason Season??

[Mamorien]

Neoliberalism is basically dead, but nothing has come along to replace it other than the spectre of populist nativism.  This is probably due largely to climate change,

I thought it was due to the main alternative having been discredited by the collapse of the USSR, discredited so thoroughly that nearly 30 years later, otherwise well-informed people sincerely believe that "socialism" means always and only what one of its most fervent foes said:

From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States), this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

Churchill frequently expressed nostalgia for the Romanovs and a view of Lenin, not as a cure worse than the disease, but as a disease which had infested a healthy nation (because ruled by a king, as any truly civilized country would be). See also Edmund Burke concluding that "the age of chivalry is gone[...] and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever" because Marie Antoinette and her husband found out the hard way that you can only ignore the little folk, or pretend they're too little to love or to hate, for so long. (How they must love what they do!)