Are we becoming like Europe?

Victor Davis Hanson argues that we are -- and in more ways than one.

In particular, he says that Europe has become a place of institutionalized cynicism:

The natural human response to forced multiculturalism, socialism, and equality of result is cynicism. One senses that in Europe the public persona is a mere veneer. Privately most scheme to avoid taxes, to moonlight, to barter-if they are not among the government elite with high-paying, hyper-perked tenures at a ministry-while avoiding the legions of new unassimilated Muslims from North Africa, and especially the Americanized troika of assimilation, integration, and intermarriage. Let us avoid such institutionalized cynicism in the US.

After all, we have a president who made running against cynicism the cornerstone of his supremely cynical platform.