Nope. The Brexit vote was a couple of different things. The Brexit voting people who wanted it had been steeped in anti-EU propaganda for decades. I have met people who voted Brexit as a vote against the status quo. And Brexit wasn’t defined pre-vote so it could be anything depending on your media.
In a way. Speaking as a Brit, Brexit is certainly the closest I've seen the British political environment come to that of the US, namely characterised by a zero-sum contest that people strongly identify with 1 or other side, to a very polarising effect. Though has slowly subsided in the last few yrs
Seriously nobody in the world should follow our model. 90% of the population, including the media thinks everything is okey-doke and I’m pretty sure we have a tenuous grasp on our democracy and are seconds away from war.
As quite a few have noted, it remains depressingly ironic that whenever the US has played a major role in writing (or supervising writing) a new constitution for an occupied country - Germany, Italy, Japan, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc - they've always shied away from copying the US model.
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