Freedland has a tin ear if he thinks a bunch of Germans gathering together in hero worshipping throngs will appeal to an American voter. Has it only taken a generation for Britain to forget the consequences of such a thing? What is it with Europeans and their cults of personality? Why are they so eager to turn over wider and wider swaths of their lives to the first charlatan who comes along?

The Euros remain Monarchists, no matter what they claim; having substituted Marxist State Socialism for the King.