
What it did mean to me comes from when it happened: June, 2016. Brexit was pushed through with lies and half truths by would-be populists. In the weeks after it passed and what it meant became clear, many U.K. citizens who had voted for it wanted to do it over and take back their votes. As I write this, the Prime Minister has barely passed a no-confidence vote, taken because she's done a poor job of selling something that will damage her country.
I'd always thought of the English as being more skeptical to political chicanery than we are. But when Brexit passed I thought, "Uh-oh. If that happens there, there's a good chance that this clown Donald Trump could get elected here."
