European-Style Socialism is Pretty Awesome

Here’s some diavlogging with Matt Continetti in which I make the case for European-style social democracy:

Henry Farrell and Daniel Drezner also did a BHTV discussion of some related issues. I also wrote on a similar theme for the Daily Beast this week.

I did, however, want to clarify that with regard to the Daily Beast headline I don’t actually think Obama’s budget proposals are tantamount to a full-bore social democratic agenda. They move somewhat in that direction, but are still quite a bit more moderate than would-be proposals to give the United States a Northern European social model.