Richard Spencer argues Brexit exposes Britain's failure to address racial displacement, distinguishing between cultural enrichment from Poland and an existential threat from former colonies. He critiques Angela Merkel's altruism versus Viktor Orban's "Fortress Europa" approach, claiming the EU missed a pivotal moment to define its identity during the refugee crisis. Ultimately, he suggests these failures may trigger similar referenda elsewhere, challenging the EU's future legitimacy while urging Britain to confront its true cultural and political dilemmas. [Automatically generated summary]
Politics, as they say, is the art of the possible.
Brexit fills me with hope to the extent that now more things are possible politically in the United Kingdom and beyond.
This is also what fills me with hope about the Trump movement.
That said, Britons did not solve their fundamental problem on Thursday, which is racial displacement.
Internal immigration within the European Union, the so-called Polish plumber, is arguably a real instance of cultural enrichment.
On the other hand, the immigration from Britain's former colonies, which Britain has been allowing for decades and which is completely unrelated to the EU, remains an existential threat and self-inflicted wound.
My hope is that after Brexit, as more things are possible politically, Britain faces its true cultural, political, and racial dilemma.
Of late, I've taken the unpopular position, at least on the alt-right, that Euroscepticism and EU bashing have their limits, and that we should be open to the possibilities of Europeanism.
After last night, which no doubt launched similar referenda in other countries, I question whether the EU has a future at all.
The refugee crisis, which peaked last summer but is ongoing, was a tremendous opportunity for the EU.
It could have become Fortress Europa.
Brussels could have defined what Europe really is, defined us and them, and gained a great deal of popular legitimacy in the process.
In other words, Brussels could have followed the lead of Viktor Orban, as opposed to going along with the altruistically insane Angela Merkel.