RadixJournal - Richard Spencer - After Brexit
Aired: 2016-06-24
Duration: 02:09


=== Brexit's Political Possibilities (02:08) ===

[00:00:01]  Politics, as they say, is the art of the possible.
[00:00:05]  Brexit fills me with hope to the extent that now more things are possible politically in the United Kingdom and beyond.
[00:00:15]  This is also what fills me with hope about the Trump movement.
[00:00:19]  That said, Britons did not solve their fundamental problem on Thursday, which is racial displacement.
[00:00:27]  Internal immigration within the European Union, the so-called Polish plumber, is arguably a real instance of cultural enrichment.
[00:00:42]  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.
[00:00:57]  My hope is that after Brexit, as more things are possible politically, Britain faces its true cultural, political, and racial dilemma.
[00:01:09]  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.
[00:01:24]  After last night, which no doubt launched similar referenda in other countries, I question whether the EU has a future at all.
[00:01:33]  The refugee crisis, which peaked last summer but is ongoing, was a tremendous opportunity for the EU.
[00:01:41]  It could have become Fortress Europa.
[00:01:45]  Brussels could have defined what Europe really is, defined us and them, and gained a great deal of popular legitimacy in the process.
[00:01:55]  In other words, Brussels could have followed the lead of Viktor Orban, as opposed to going along with the altruistically insane Angela Merkel.
[00:02:06]  Last summer could have been the EU's moment.