Trump Was Temporary. But Brexit is Permanent.
How Britain is Throwing Away Its Future For a Nationalist Delusion
This decade won’t just be remembered for Covid, but also for another kind of pandemic. The vicious, stupid ugliness of the mind and spirit, known as nationalism. It spread from corner to corner of the globe — Brazil, India, America, Britain. And every society it infected was left ruinously, disastrously worse off as a result.
Of the societies that nationalism infected hardest, chief lie America and Britain. The wages of nationalism in America resulted in the bombastic, violent, stupidity of Donald Trump — a reality TV star who was a fake billionaire, a sexual predator, Manhattan’s laughingstock — becoming President. And you might say to yourself — America hit rock bottom. Maybe it did. And yet the bitter truth is this.
Trump was temporary. But Brexit is forever. Trump’s effects in America were fast, hard, and terrifying. But Trump’s Presidency is now over.s Meanwhile, Brexit is going to do far more damage to Britain, because, well, it’s permanent. Britain will turn out to have been the country worst affected — by far — by the idiot’s plague of nationalism which swept the globe in the 2010s.
Where does Britain go from here? How bad will things get? To answer that question, let me…
