President Vaclav Klaus Comments on "Who Lost America?"

Czech President and Economist in Lidové noviny newspaper: "I, too, am troubled by empty, allegedly right-wing clichés."

The first review (or at least an extended commentary) of my new book “Who Lost America?” has just been published by no less a figure than the former President of the Czech Republic, Dr Vaclav Klaus. The piece is headlined, “I, too, am troubled by empty, allegedly right-wing clichés,” and it is published in the leading Czech newspaper of record.

President Klaus achieved fame in the 1990s-2000s as an authority on free-market economics and leading Eurosceptic. Among his accomplishments, he was the first world leader to challenge the notorious plutocrat George Soros, resulting in the closing of the ideological Central European University in Prague. (This was years before Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban refused to support the campus in Budapest, forcing it to close as well.) Dr Klaus spoke frequently in Washington, often at the Cato Institute, before being deprived of his fellowship for dissenting views on homosexualist politics and Russia. (So much for the commitment to freedom of expression among official Washington libertarianism.)

The original version is published in the Czech daily, Lidove noviny and refers to an earlier title, Why Did It Happen?” The Google browser and others provide adequate English translations (or I can provide one on request).

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Václav Klaus for Lidové noviny:

I, too, am troubled by empty, allegedly right-wing clichés

American political science professor Stephen Baskerville wrote a book called Why Did It Happen? [since renamed Who Lost America?]. What he means by that is what has happened and is happening in America, in the United States of America, over the last four years. He sees it as a takeover of the government by the radical left, which has so far never happened in the history of the United States — in more than two and a half centuries. (…)

Read the rest here.