The problem is that you guys are seeing this as a mirror image of the situation in the US when it is not.
This is not about Democrats vs Republicans, this is about people who want to leave their perception of the EU versus people who want to actual leave the EU versus people who don’t want to leave the EU.
“Urban elite” - you mean the whole of Scotland who voted stay are “urban elite” in your opinion??
This is elites vs people and urban vs rural.
I haven’t lived in the UK for more 15 years so I wasn’t eligible to vote.
But one of the things that bothered me about some of my relatives who are big Remainers, is that their main issue is that they want to live and work in the EU, and Brexit threatened that.
IE. they want the trade and labour laws of the UK to be optimized for their particular convenience - and they don’t even want to live in the country !
And that is the elites vs people problem.
We have an internationalist elite who are from nowhere, demanding that the people from somewhere defer to them, and dislocate their whole societies to accommodate them.
NO !