What Brexit IS and IS NOT About

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There Surgent: What Brexit IS and IS NOT About

By Josh Hammer | June 24, 2016, 02:35pm

 

Huge kudos are in store today for our British friends. Britons directly defied the will of all their major political parties’ leaders not named Nigel Farage, directly rebuked the sitting U.S. president—who had infamously fear-mongered that a post-E.U. Britain would be relegated to the “back of the queue” in future U.S. trade negotiations—and surely sent Angela Merkel into the deepest bowels of her personal liquor cabinet by defying Britain’s four-plus decade experiment as part of the supranational European project and voting for the restoration of their national sovereignty.

 

UKIP’s Farage, without whom the E.U. referendum surely would never have occurred and who now stands as one of the unlikeliest transformative British party leaders in post-World War II history, took to calling June 23 Britain’s “Independence Day.” We in the U.S. can all appreciate that sentiment:

 

 

WHAT BREXIT IS ABOUT

 

Sovereignty and Subsidiarity

Skepticism of Multilateral Governance and the European Project

Borders and Immigration Matter

 

WHAT BREXIT IS NOT ABOUT

 

Xenophobia

Isolationism

Complete Abandonment of Europe