Thread by @JewhadiTM

Brexit, Trump, and the Elite’s Last Stand (via @tfarnanlaw) bit.ly/30jdwSm

The European Union was the crowning achievement of governance by the childish naiveties of the college term paper.

The free people who defied Hitler’s blitz were supposed to accept rule by bookish twits who didn’t even bother to land troops to achieve their outsized authority over all things British.

Then #Brexit happened. Brits voted to throw off the European Union and get on with life. At precisely the same moment, Donald Trump was happening in America.

It was probably credulous to believe that elections would instantly depose the meddlesome throngs who think they know better. Bureaucracies in the West have risen to protect themselves against the surge of self-governance.

Brexit stalled upon the failure to reach an agreement with the EU—as if the vote to leave conditioned departure upon terms set in Brussels. To the Brexiteers, the bad-faith negotiation proved their wisdom in removing power from the political class.

In truth, though, provincial ministers are maneuvering to thwart the clearly expressed will of the people. Elizabeth II has intervened to vindicate the principles her forebears agreed to in the Magna Carta. She has suspended Parliament.

Apparently, the queen is permitted to move in any direction to counter a stratagem that would displace the sovereign, just like in chess. Who knew?

There is no similar piece in the American system that can move vertically, horizontally or diagonally. Instead, the Founders chose to arm the citizenry.

If the bureaucrats can use Google to consolidate power, then what? A class of academic, business and government elites run the world, and everyone else is just a deplorable subject to their control.

Brexit in October and Trump in 2020: the stakes could not be higher.