This column from 2 weeks ago in City Journal has thankfully been overtaken by events:

…there is a serious risk that little more than 4 percent of the adult population could determine the policies of the next government.

According to polls, the Scottish National Party (SNP) will win 50 seats in the next Parliament. Polls can be wrong, of course…

In economics, the Nationalists are socialist, or at least corporatist; in politics, their rhetoric is nationalist. They are, in fact, national socialists. Fascism is returning to Europe, though—for now—with a much less aggressive, brutal face.