OK, give me a few tweets to explain. The main reason people tend to cite as why Brexit can't possibly be a victory for
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the Left is because the campaign was largely driven by xenophobes and elements unsavory. There's truth to that. But people
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seem too wrapped up in the relatively transient concern of which actors did what over the course of the campaign itself
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if the outcome has desirous effects, then the factors which gave rise to that outcome shld be secondary or tertiary concerns
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Does that mean you condone xenophobia? No. It just means that xenophobic elements which might be temporarily vindicated...
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... don't need to dictate the final calculus as to whether Brexit will bring desirable effects.
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If xenophobes are vindicated, that's an undesirable, but short-term problem. Brexit outcome arguably good in the long-term.
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well, intent matters. And while the act itself may be good in theory it can't be divorced from forces that brought it about
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it *can* be divorced, people are just refusing to do so because invested in the campaign itself
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Corbyn himself argues Labour is positioned to capitalize. Not a given that xenophobes will gain meaningful political power.
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