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Michael Berkowitz's avatar

I don't know enough about the Brexit saga to confirm or deny the author's contentions, but item #5 is clearly a misdirection. Regardless of whether Britain has *good* politicians or *bad* politicians, ones who acted honorably or who abused the system, it has *answerable* politicians.

The citizens get to vote them out of office -- or not -- as they see fit. My understanding is that can't be said for the European Parliament or the European Commission.

I think it would be worthwhile for Persuasion to reprint John Gustavsson's conservative take on Brexit, just published in The Dispatch (https://thedispatch.com/p/a-non-populist-case-for-brexit). It seems more a considered argument and less a hit-piece to me... but then I'm conservative, so make of it what you will.

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C. Scala's avatar

Thanks for your excellent piece, Mr. Dunt. Brexit has been such a slow-rolling disaster that we need concise accounts of the key "leave" figures and where they are now (rolling in clover), the false claims they used to persuade the constituencies they were aiming at, and the consequences, which will continue to unfold over time.

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