But the fear of immigration and refugees was felt and flamed in imagination. Areas with actual experience of immigrants voter to remain. #pt
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Gordon B-P #FBPE #Vets4EU
This fear was stoked with falsehoods & stirred up by the tabloids. But the failure is not effectively answering it.https://twitter.com/readergordonbp/status/746320005093072896 …
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The same economic elites who keep telling folks globalization is just great for regular folks cannot credibly carry a pro-immigrant message.
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As an admirer of the EU project; as an immigrant, and a refugee advocate: These messages needed to be wedded to an anti-austerity agenda.
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In an age of anxiety & inequality, if humane, inclusive & populist politics isn't there, the xenophobic one will be strong. Always happens.
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I hope it's a wake up call. Historical analogies to this day—anxiety, tech transition, global upheaval, elite failure—are not comforting.
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The goal of the EU project was to avoid another ethno-supremacist backlash fueled by economic & social anxiety. Last one almost did us in.
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Yep. Exactly the point I made on my NYT op-ed on Trump (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/opinion/campaign-stops/adventures-in-the-trump-twittersphere.html …). And that the fire can burn us all. https://twitter.com/squarelyrooted/status/746276263942295552 …
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Cameron (who deserves own chapter in the great book March of Folly) wanted to engineer a controlled fire. Nope.pic.twitter.com/Jr0XDU8hpz
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The GOP have been stoking this fire since the 60s, honestly.
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Yeah, but they thought they could just control this; keep wedding it to policies their own elites wanted.
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Social Media has accelerated a lot of this, IMO. Democrats are learning that the hard way, as well.
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Exactly. It's a difficult time; and elite failure all around isn't helping. Challengers also need to do better, though.
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