VICTORY IN BRITAIN: Brexiteers, we did it! “We have achieved something that no other member state of the European Union has ever managed to do: that is, we didn’t only express our democratic opposition to the EU oligarchy – many member states have done that – but we also managed to defend that democratic opposition from the inevitable elitist onslaught against it. All other European peoples who have voted against EU constitutions or treaties or austerity packages – the French, the Dutch, the Irish, the Greeks – have eventually been defeated. They were either just ignored or forced to vote again until they gave the ‘right’ answer. Britain is the first nation in the history of this anti-democratic, anti-working-class, neoliberal oligarchy to resolutely see its democratic wishes through to the end.”
Related: Farage on the Deal: “The War is Over.”
As the establishment hissy-fits over Brexit and over the 2016 election illustrate, our political/journalistic/academic class fundamentally doesn’t believe that it should have to accept an electoral defeat.
And even in the United States, where they’ve supposedly won, they don’t seem happy:
