Holman Jenkins isn’t the only writer who is pessimistic about our future these days. Bruce Fein is also, foreseeing a lot more socialistic meddling with the operation of free markets. You can read his Washington Times column here.

Fein concludes, “Only a political maturity that the United States has failed to achieve can resist the temptation to government foolishness when the economy turns south.” Yup — we’ve done that again and again.