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Mortimer Zuckerman, who never apparently unearthed a mainstream meme he didn’t appreciate, has written an article (excerpted above) in the Wall Street Journal proclaiming the “end of American optimism.” Zuckerman is the extraordinarily successful Canadian-born owner/operator of the New York Daily News and US News and World Reports. He also runs a NY-based real-estate empire. The article, from our point of view, offers a textbook power elite, fear-based theme followed by an authoritarian solution