Canadians may be intellectually curious about the prospect of European Union membership and angry at Donald Trump’s America -— which, according to a recent Pew poll, they now view more negatively than they do China —- but they may not be eager to accept the sweeping transformation of their country’s laws and regulations that E.U. membership would entail.
~ Ishaan Tharoor via The New Yorker
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Still, the move toward Brexit channelled populist passions that now shape politics on both sides of the Atlantic: a contempt for experts and mainstream institutions; a hatred of liberal cosmopolitan idealism; a shameless embrace and proliferation of misinformation by political opportunists; and agendas anchored more in antipathy for a perceived enemy than in a positive vision for everyone.
~ Ishaan Tharoor via The New Yorker
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For all his calls for unity, Boris Johnson was one of the key architects of what’s arguably the biggest rupture in Western politics in a generation: Brexit —- Britain’s decision to quit the European Union and, in doing so, to turn its back on an institution that seemed to represent the apex of post-Cold War liberalism.
~ Ishaan Tharoor via The New Yorker
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