MICHAEL TOTTEN: History Returns to Europe: “The EU is a brilliant idea… The actually existing EU, though, isn’t so brilliant. It includes all the good stuff, yet it’s crushed by a staggering amount of centralized regulatory bureaucracy and a disregard for the wishes of its individual member states. It’s hardly a gulag empire, but it’s autocratic enough that Europe’s democracy deficit has its own Wikipedia page. And its internally borderless nature is bringing more immigrants than can be absorbed all at once without shocks to the system.”

If nothing else, Brexit has certainly been a useful exercise in watching elite euro-leftists drop the mask and “revolt against the masses,” to coin a phrase.