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And in France, a mainstream candidate such as Emmanuel Macron or Francois Fillon will likely win the presidency in a runoff against the far-right National Front's Marine Le Pen, unless she shrewdly poses as a moderate or a socialist welfare-statist "patriot." After that, German voters will either re-elect Chancellor Angela Merkel, or give the job to the pro-EU Social Democrat Martin Schulz.

Moreover, the political culture remains less welfare-statist in the United States than in Europe.

As Friedman shifts without comment or justification from a broad Enlightenment conception of moral progress to a rather parochial American welfare-statist conception of political morality, the nature and importance of the dependent variable in Friedman's equation becomes ever more elusive.