The biggest recent shock for the West’s metropolitan elites, and for the pundits that help form their worldview, was the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom. Almost all the great and the good in the UK wanted to Remain. Abroad, President Obama found common ground with China’s President Xi in supporting Remain (perhaps only coincidentally, Bob Carr and Sam Dastyari shared President Xi’s view).
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