Tuesday, 2 August 2016
Brexit, Trumpism and the Challenge to Globalism
There has been a lot of media coverage on the displays of xenophobia surrounding the Brexit vote in the U.K. and Donald Trump's presidential campaign. These are deplorable actions and should be condemned.
An unfortunate consequence, however, of both the focus on Trump's more outrageous statements and the isolated acts of racism in the U.K. has been to divert attention away from what discouraged Brits and Americans are saying about our globalist experiment of the last 30 years.
Here's an article that explores their point of view.
http://theindependent.ca/2016/08/01/brexit-trumpism-and-the-challenge-to-globalism/