BREXIT – THE TRAUMA CONTINUES – QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 12:18 P.M. ET:  You'd think the Earth was breaking apart.  The various establishments, and the bratty youth, are going crazy.  How dare voters not take the advice of people in custom-made suits?  Michael Goodwin, at the New York Post, calls this a true revolution, in our quote of the day:

As the Brexit results poured in, I caught myself humming a tune from Broadway’s “Hamilton.” The song follows the decisive Battle of Yorktown in 1781, after which the Redcoats surrender and America is free. It’s called a drinking song, and there’s not much to it except these words: “The world turned upside down.”

It certainly has. The world is also coming full circle because now it’s the Brits who are free. It took them a while, but they finally had their own Tea Party and their own revolution.

I salute them for their courage. And I raise a glass to freedom (that’s “Hamilton,” too).

Revolutions are a leap into the unknown and require the right mix of outrage, determination and leadership. They are testament to the ethos of an entire country and culture when they succeed without a shot being fired.

That’s the beauty of Brexit, and of grand old England. The people spoke, they were heard, and the wheel of history is turning. Let’s get on with it.

It took a revolution because the leaders of both of Britain’s major political parties united in opposition to change, with the pooh-bahs and grandees trying to scare voters into sticking with the status quo. Naturally, the establishment media lectured the rubes on what was good for them.

Sound familiar, America?

COMMENT:  Yup, it sounds familiar.  Both are parties are stuck in the mud.  And, ironically, the one candidate to challenge Hillary seriously is more stuck in the mud than she is.  He's an old socialist, who thinks every year is 1917. 

Democracies turn slowly, but, when they turn, they turn decisively.  Our question in America is whether we are ready to turn, after eight years of a cynical, contemptuous administration that has done everything to trash our values and our history.

June 26, 2016