I
don't have any personal axe to grind on Brexit. Except for one: I am
sick and tired of watching folks like Boris Johnson, Marine Le Pen,
Donald Trump, and others appeal to the worst racial instincts of our
species, only to be shushed by folks telling me that it's not really
racism driving their popularity. It's economic angst. It's regular folks
tired of being spurned by out-of-touch elites. It's a natural anxiety
over rapid cultural change.
Maybe
it's all those things. But at its core, it's the last stand of old
people who have been frightened to death by cynical right-wing media
empires and the demagogues who enable them—all of whom have based their
appeals on racism as overt as anything we've seen in decades. It's
loathsome beyond belief, and not something I thought I'd ever see in my
lifetime. But that's where we are.
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