Via Salon:

The new pro-capitalist, anti-nationalist center-left finds allies in investment banks and college campuses but has little to offer ordinary people who view the nation-state as their agent and protector in a dangerous world. Nobody should be surprised when, in a period of economic crisis, significant parts of the population should turn to unabashed nationalists of the right, as opposed to progressives who fret that helping out their fellow citizens might be a form of discrimination against more deserving foreigners.

Michael Lind examines the success of far-right nationalist and populist candidates in the June 7 elections to the European Parliament and what it portends for Democrats here in the US.  His most interesting argument is the European center-left has replaced their socialism for capitalism while retaining their ideological internationalism.