WHAT WAS APPLEBAUM'S POINT?

(h/t Atrios)

In a WaPo op-ed, Anne Applebaum makes a point that John Gray has been making for at least a decade: " globalization has clearly begun to undermine the legitimacy of Western democracies."  But she then lapses into a fatal contradiction by claiming that nation-states are our only option:

Well, they already have a process: It’s called the British political system. And if they don’t figure out how to use it, they’ll simply weaken it further.