Posted on 06/24/2016 5:38:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In the wake of the UK’s vote Thursday to leave the EU, comparisons of Brexit's success to the rise of Donald Trump have been flying far and wide. This is only natural, since anti-immigrant, anti-elite, and nationalist sentiments played major roles in both shocking phenomena.
Of course, many of these analogies are too facile. The US faces no comparable controversy over regulations from a transnational economic bureaucracy. The US electorate is much more diverse than Britain’s. Trump himself has massive weaknesses in personality, popularity, and campaign mechanics that an issue-oriented campaign doesn’t. And where "Leave" and "Remain" were essentially tied in polling averages, Trump is clearly trailing Hillary Clinton at this point.
Despite all these differences, though, the Brexit result should jolt American liberals out of any complacence they may feel about Trump’s candidacy. While prediction markets currently give him about a 25 percent chance of winning the presidency four and a half months out, they gave Brexit less than 20 percent chance of winning just this week. And potential economic turmoil, the possibility that the polls can move, and even basic probability are all strong reasons nobody should take Trump’s defeat for granted....
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
SOVEREIGNTY!!
No need to worry as they’re really dense. Remember how long it took us to convince them that Dubya wasn’t President anymore. It took a few years.
Who says an old country cannot learn new tricks?
Hooray for the UK!
“The US faces no comparable controversy over regulations from a transnational economic bureaucracy.”
True: we have something far, far worse - domestic enemies.
And the quoted statement is true AT THIS TIME; Obama had been working in that direction, though and has been only barely thwarted in most cases. Clinton would just continue his dirty work.
FREEDOM!
The Ministry of Propaganda is not going to know what hit them on election night.
>>The US faces no comparable controversy over regulations from a transnational economic bureaucracy.<<
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This it TOTALLY FALSE.
The US faces exactly the same globalist civilization—an ally of Muslim Civilization and of all forms of collectivist filth—as does the U.K.
Wow . Did I say that? Well said!!
>>>since anti-immigrant<<<
It’s anti ILLEGAL Immigrant.
Brexit the second shot heard around the world.
Europe will unravel, and it’s a damn good thing.
Exactly.
We now face the TPP and TTIP.
Gonna need to send a pallet of Huggies to the libs down at Vox.
Don’t forget TPP.
Goes to show how disconnected the elites are from the People of just about any land these days...
“The US electorate is much more diverse than Britain’s.”
That is totally irrelevant, unless you buy into the leftist narrative that anti illegal immigration is essentially racist, which it is not.
Dumb article conflating nationalism with racism.
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