It's a curious contradiction that just as the UK finally gets Brexit, Trump is on his way out of the Whitehouse, banned from Facebook and Twitter, threatened with impeachment. The events of 2016 in the UK and US, which seemed to combine in some way, now diverge. I would suppose this divergence would not be lost on President-elect Joe Biden.
I hesitate to call him 'President-elect' though. I do not believe he was duly elected. Whereas the Brexit vote was clearly a democratic exercise, and simply nothing in four years indicated that complaints about Trump's victory in 2016 were justified (despite years of rumour mongering about Russian interference, backed by an official investigation), every indication is that Biden's 'victory' was based on absurd turnout, overwhelmingly by postal vote, in democrat-controlled enclaves of a few key states. Attempts to distract from that are legion online, via the MSM (rather an outdated term), but always seem to be simply running interference.
The ironic result is that the UK now seems to be the beacon of democracy. Why should I assume that means it will come under assault? Well, it may not be direct assault, but I would assume that the most likely attack would come via Scottish separatism. In any case, we can see in Joe Biden the perfect example of why we still need the democratic process to work. His proven engagement with the fraud of his son in Ukraine is precisely the dynastic mentality which governs the wannabe rulership of the post-modern elite and their technocratic allies.
So, I would expect an attempt to punish, or subvert, the British democratic experiment - or both, in some combination. It will be interesting to see how Biden works out his strategy regarding Brexit (I tend to believe it will be him; I might have been gulty of underestimating him, myself). I have to say I think the UK will be equal to it, so that it will emerge more clearly as a torch-holder. The thing is, the UK (or equivalent) has had a pretty lively democracy since god knows when. It was vivid even in the 17th century, emergent in the 18th, dominant in the 19th and only occasionally eclipsed in the 20th. Sooner or later even the Chinese will get the message. Covid's not the only infectious thing in circulation, as their leadership know full-well.
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