The mandarins of Brussels, like Hillaryland, are blind to how people perceive them. Brexit has only reinforced their worldview. The verdict in Brussels is that Britain’s exit is an opportunity. It will allow European integration to pick up more speed. It is an open question whether Brussels’s response will trigger more Brexits in the years ahead. The same obliviousness applies to Washington, where I have lived for the past decade. Ninety-one per cent of Washington voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Trump’s victory has only bolstered the view that people outside the capital’s beltway are
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