But when the country that designed globalisation, imposed it and benefited from it most votes against it, you have to consider the possibility that it is going to end, and suddenly. If so, you also have to consider a possibility that—if you are a liberal, humanist democrat—may be even more shocking: that oligarchic nationalism is the default form of failing economies.
“The Soviet Union collapsed overnight. Don’t assume western democracy will last for ever | Paul Mason” at www.theguardian.com