Americans – like Britain – want to shake up the status quo

The United Kingdom's historic vote to leave the European Union might not immediately seem to have much to do with American politics. Yet the impulse that lead a majority of British citizens to vote for such a massive change, one with uncertain economic implications but that guarantees turmoil, also underpins America's current political moment. Where I live in Berlin, the elites in government and the media are deeply disappointed by the Brexit vote, seeing it as a triumph of xenophobia and natio

The United Kingdom's historic vote to leave the European Union might not immediately seem to have much to do with American politics. Yet the impulse that lead a majority of British citizens to vote for such a massive change, one with uncertain economic implications but that guarantees turmoil, also underpins America's current political moment. Where I live in Berlin, the elites in government and the media are deeply disappointed by the Brexit vote, seeing it as a triumph of xenophobia and natio…