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Why Has the US Resisted Trump but the UK Acquiesced to Brexit?

3 pointsby deafcalculusalmost 8 years ago

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petercooperalmost 8 years ago
Ardent pro-Remain&#x2F;anti-Brexiteer here.<p>It&#x27;s simple. Trump can go away in 4 years, or possibly less, if you fight him hard enough. So people are fighting him.<p>Fighting Brexit, however, requires that you, in the eyes of the public, permanently (since Brexit isn&#x27;t temporary) dismiss the most pure form of democracy that the British ever get access to: the referendum.<p>The Liberal Democrats have merely suggested having a second referendum on the negotiated Brexit deal and they&#x27;re getting called all sorts&#x2F;undemocratic&#x2F;blah blah, so people like me might as well be undemocratic authoritarian dictators in the eyes of a newly validated, right-wing nationalist populace.