Rejectionist movements should terrify all liberal democracies (Mounk in Slate)

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4. The problem with Brexit is that

this is not simply an internal political change, nor a governmental changeover. Those are indeed primary roles of a democratic society.

This is literally a sea change in how the UK will function, likely for generations, in a world that is fast becoming less a State-governed society than a transnational one.

The UK no longer has its huge Empire to rely on, nor will it any longer have its EU protections and bennies. It will be just a single rather small island and a small part of another (assuming that Scotland and NI stay within the UK, which is iffy right now) that will have to wend its way on its own when it has fewer resources for doing so. In union there is strength. The UK has literally squandered its strength.

If it makes me part of the "indolent twitterati" for stating the truth, then I am proud to be among them.