Re:China has passed a national security law for Hong Kong
by bsder on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @02:05AM
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> As far as I can tell, a lot of Brexit was driven by ...
The problem with Brexit was the same with Trump--vague anger with no target.
A bunch of different groups ascribed, often contradictory, concrete actions and values to the inchoate phenomenon.
For Trump, this is embodied in "But he's not hurting the right people." Lots of people who voted for Trump wanted him to hurt their pet scapegoats, but the problem is that they were often the pet scapegoats for each other.
For Brexit, you could take any idea (unified market, for example) and find Brexiteers who were both for and against it. This was doomed to a crash-out as there was no actual concrete proposal that could satisfy any more than a minority of Brexiteers.
Ironically, revoking Brexit probably satisfies more voters than any concrete Brexit strategy.
The problem with Brexit was the same with Trump--vague anger with no target.
A bunch of different groups ascribed, often contradictory, concrete actions and values to the inchoate phenomenon.
For Trump, this is embodied in "But he's not hurting the right people." Lots of people who voted for Trump wanted him to hurt their pet scapegoats, but the problem is that they were often the pet scapegoats for each other.
For Brexit, you could take any idea (unified market, for example) and find Brexiteers who were both for and against it. This was doomed to a crash-out as there was no actual concrete proposal that could satisfy any more than a minority of Brexiteers.
Ironically, revoking Brexit probably satisfies more voters than any concrete Brexit strategy.