A GREAT RESPONSE – AT 1:15 P.M. ET:  Britain is under enormous assault from the usual suspects for its vote to leave the EU.  How dare these people think for themselves!  Naturally, the words of the modern McCarthyism are being thrown about – racists, bigots, fearmongers, xenophobes, morons.

But some of the pushback against these libels is positively exquisite.  Consider this, from Peter Hitchens, in the Daily Mail:     

What an awesome tribute to the British people. Day after day, month after month, voters were bombarded with hysterical threats and terrifying scares — everything the Government machine, the mainstream party leaders and the global political and financial elites could throw at them.

They endured insults and abuse. Those who believed Britain could prosper as an independent nation, both in Europe and the world beyond, were attacked as 'Little Englanders'.

Those who were concerned about the effects of uncontrolled immigration on jobs, wages, housing, public services and the welfare of their children were smeared as 'racists'.

Most insidious of all, it was even suggested that Leavers were somehow implicated in the tragic death of MP Jo Cox.

But outside the echo-chamber that is the metropolitan liberal class, the real people of Britain saw things differently.

They held their nerve, saw through the lies and trusted their instincts.

In a magnificent affirmation of national self-belief and character, their resounding message to the elite was:

We are fed up with being disdained and ignored over the issues about which we feel strongly.

We deserve better than to be treated as a mere offshore province of an unelected, anti-democratic, corrupt pan- European bureaucracy.

We have less to be ashamed of than any other nation on Earth. We gave the world Parliamentary democracy, the industrial revolution, Magna Carta, human rights and free trade.

COMMENT:  Read the rest.  It's a wonderful affirmation of democratic values.  We could use writing like that in the American press.

June 25, 2016