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The Day Britain Voted To Leave The European Union Was The First Time We Thought Trump Could Win
Now that Brexit’s hit a brick wall, does that also bode ill for Trump?
We first connected the fate of both back in June 2016, in a piece entitled “The ONLY reason Americans should care about Brexit vote”. (Hint: it’s Trump. And in the last couple of years he’s also taught us a lot about excessive use of all caps, not yet of italics).
Is there really a correlation? (Trump drew that line himself, Tweeting at one point: “They will soon be calling me MR. BREXIT!”).
We didn’t even know at the time that a lot of the money, and a lot of of the same people were behind both Brexit and the “Trump train.” So there’s a clue.
At the time, we saw it simply as 2016 turning into “The Year of the Hothead”, with cooler heads not prevailing because they decided to stay at home. And a bunch of ultra-Conservatives convincing a surprisingly large number of voters it was high time to just shake things up. But they really didn’t think things through beyond winning. So when they won, chaos ensued. And continues.
Applies to both, right?…
But we followed it up the next day saying we saw at least one huge difference: while Brits were…