It's astounding that Fukuyama would failed to have notice another really remarkable thing about Denmark--its ethnic, linguistic, and religious homogeneity, its common culture, its common history, and so on and so forth. That might have a wee bit to do with it, in addition to the centuries of history and tradition that go into building a society based on mutual trust.

Of course, basically nobody with any influence acknowledges the importance of these things.

Fukuyama misses the two most important points when he lists “Denmarkness requires three things: functioning states, rule of law, and accountable government.” Denmarkness also requires, before these admittedly desirable things, trustworthy neighbors (I suspect that Fukuyama would never use Israel as his model society no matter how it excelled in accountable government and rule of law) and a world-order that allows small states their independence (this is why Fukuyama chooses Denmark rather than Delaware as his model).

"its ethnic, linguistic, and religious homogeneity, its common culture, its common history, and so on and so forth."

The Scandinavian countries draw a large amount of immigrants who come there, it seems, solely to take advantage of the welfare systems.

These ain't Danes, Norwegians or Swedes, they're people who move in and demand to recreate the medieval squalor from whence they came.

Denmark is extremely homogeneous, especially by American and British standards. It has some of the tougher immigration policies in Europe. It tightened its asylum and family reunification laws in 2001, resulting in an 82% drop in asylum permits and a 70% drop in visas issued under family reunification policies.

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Funny how the very societies both the Left and Right hold up as models are all far more homogeneous than the one they achieve to create here - Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Israel, Japan, Germany, etc.

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I am curious what the "greater Ohio region" consists of?

Everything but Cleveland?

I noticed that racial and cultural homogeneity wasn't among the three things Denmark needs. I guess European countries have to get rid of their European heritage or else guys named Fukuyama would have a tough time fitting in and an even tougher time spreading propaganda. Although I don't know anything about him, apparently he's an American; It wouldn't surprise me if he thought America was too European and needed to be more inclusive.

SeanB has it exactly right. Human nature being what it is, the effete and cultured are granted permission to be weak only by the sympathetic strong. Without the US backing them up, Danes (in fact all of Western Europe), would have become Soviet subjects by 1950 at the latest.