It is, I just expect things to be worse for countries that stay in until the actual breakdown of EU.
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Replying to @michaelbd
Do you worry that majority might have had good case against Euro-elites, but for the wrong reason (Ethno-nationalism/nativism)?
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Replying to @yeselson
I’m sympathetic to the nativism, in its moderate form. Big transformations need to be absorbed, not ongoing forever.
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Replying to @michaelbd
I think older white Brits (the age gap is quite interesting) picked the wrong target. They blamed the immigrants, rather than the
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Replying to @yeselson @michaelbd
distant bureaucrats. The EU is screwed up, but exiters have probably hurt themselves economically. Would prefer multi-ethnic
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Replying to @yeselson @michaelbd
organizing to "blame the foreigners" politics--extend communitarianism, in short, rather than homogenize it.
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Replying to @yeselson @michaelbd
"Distant bureaucrats" were in fact targeted -- to a roughly equal degree as immigrants, if not more.
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Basically, Take Control focused on resenting Brussels, and Farage’s campaign talked more about immigration.
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Replying to @michaelbd @yeselson
Right, and Farage was banished from the official Leave campaign.
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Replying to @mtracey @michaelbd
but his influence was clearly substantial.
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Probably so. Even he placed heavy emphasis on blaming bureaucrats.
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