Although I still believe in globalization’s economic and spiritual benefits — along with open borders, freedom of movement and free trade — globalization has clearly begun to undermine the legitimacy of Western democracies.
“Global” activists, if they are not careful, will accelerate that decline. Protesters in London shout,“We need to have a process!” 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.
So if you read through the article, globalization and giant hedge funds are undermining democracy, but if the dirty hippies don't shut the hell up they're REALLY going to undermine it. Or, in other words, if dirty hippies who don't have a Washington Post column find ways to exercise their freedom of speech to say (some of) the same things that a tenured Washington Post columnist does, then they're doing a bad and making her have a sad because instead of speaking and assembling they should be figuring out how to use their undermined political systems. Which apparently doesn't involve free speech or assembly, but using the "process" which involves... oh who the hell knows.
No I can't make any more sense out of this. But it is Anne Applebaum, a dim light even by the Post's standards.