Britain’s Elite Does What Ours Expects to Do to a Trump Presidency

2016-11-04

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Donald Trump has often pointed to the unexpected decision of Britons earlier this year to leave the European Union as a model for his populist campaign and its ultimate, poll-defying success. In the end, a majority of British voters rejected the support expressed by their country’s governing elite for continuing the steady erosion of U.K. sovereignty and flows of unassimilable – and potentially dangerous – migrants.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Donald Trump has often pointed to the unexpected decision of Britons earlier this year to leave the European Union as a model for his populist campaign and its ultimate, poll-defying success.

In the end, a majority of British voters rejected the support expressed by their country’s governing elite for continuing the steady erosion of U.K. sovereignty and flows of unassimilable – and potentially dangerous – migrants.

Similar sentiment fuels the Trump candidacy. It may be further sharpened among American voters by the latest development in Great Britain: a court ruling subjecting the execution of the so-called “Brexit” to more interference from the elite in the form of a vote in Parliament.

Americans are on notice that, if they do reject this country’s bipartisan governing class and elect Trump, he will need a strong mandate to overcome our elite’s opposition to “making America great again.”

This is Frank Gaffney.

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