Opinion: I’m watching my country lose its mind because of Brexit
, a finalist for the Booker Prize, andWhen the news was finally confirmed, the faces on the screen were exhausted, grey and hesitant. I was already living in Canada and so watched through the evening relatively untired as the presenters and commentators struggled into the early hours of the British morning to explain the now irrevocable fact that the country had voted by a narrow margin to leave the European Union.
In this Feb. 27, 2019, file photo, the flag of the European Union and the British national flag are flown on poles outside the Palace of Westminster in London.It is easier to say what has happened. In the past few years, I have watched my homeland lose its mind. I’ve watched the grinding collision of the referendum’s direct democracy with a parliamentary system. I’ve watched politicians lie and obfuscate, to themselves and everybody else.
But, like the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the referendum pitted grievance and simplicity against the status quo and complexity. It too was riddled with bad faith, deception, anti-immigrant rhetoric, baseless and manipulative Facebook stories, criminal campaign-finance violations and covert Russian involvement. Indeed, there are some shared personnel between Mr.
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