The Trump Brexit Intersection

by Conrad Black (May 2015)

Two weeks ago, I wrote of the unusually important parallel campaigns, for the presidential nominations in the United States and over whether the United Kingdom would continue within an “ever closer” European Union. I was in Britain last week, and have an update on both contests — which are now slightly intertwined, because of President Obama’s wildly egotistical effort, on invitation from the beleaguered British prime minister, to be a deus ex machina for the forces of “Remain” in the U.K. The great schism yawns ever more cavernously between a severely politically disappointed American public and the official and media personalities whose antics disappoint them. Even at this late date, even the most knowledgeable are inexplicably reticent to recognize how profoundly the antics of the political class of the last 20 years have alienated an immense bloc of the electorate. more>>>