Lord Ashcroft: Donald Trump Is Like Brexit In 3 Key Ways

Time Magazine ^ | November 2, 2016 | Lord Michael Ashcroft

[2ndDivisionVet]

'Many in the British political and media establishment completely failed to understand that reasonable people might vote for Brexit'

“BEYOND BREXIT!” “Brexit plus!” “Brexit times ten!” Throughout his presidential run Donald Trump has claimed the mantle of the campaign that mobilized popular discontent to defy the odds and take the UK out of the European Union in June’s referendum.

And with some justification. For the last seven weeks my polling team has conducted focus groups around the U.S. for my Ashcroft In America project, and the first things to strike us were the echoes from the polling on the British referendum that occupied the first half of our year. There are three essential parallels.

First, the Trump and Brexit movements have both harnessed a desire for change that goes beyond dry questions of policy. The debate in Britain was about more than the technicalities of the UK’s relationship with its neighboring states. As I found in my post-vote poll, Leave voters thought life was getting worse for people like them, were suspicious of globalization and unhappy with the level of immigration and saw more threats than opportunities in the way society and the economy were changing. The crossover with Trump’s appeal is obvious....

[HypatiaTaught]

I said last week to my son and daughter,

Nov 8th will be Brexit on STEROIDS!

[GOPJ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDUwXFvTJfA

“Deplorables Unite” - (Do you hear the people sing) Trump Anthem - 300K VIEWS - ORIGINAL

Brexit included in video...

[GOPJ]

UK at 54...

[Little Bill]

I have been following politics since I was 14, I ain’t never seen anything like this.

I have been following FR for close to 20 years, this is been what we have been fighting for.

[Chickensoup]

I have been following FR for close to 20 years, this is been what we have been fighting for.

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that is so right!

[Ohioan]

The most compelling argument in both cases, is the preservation of heritage; of the cultural achievements of the generations of your respective peoples, without being sacrificed to a politically correct dogma that seeks to destroy heritage in favor of some variety of an international humanist experiment.

Damn the cloud-borne dogma of the social engineers. America first. What we have-or until recently had--was the envy of the world. We must never surrender it. (See Surrender By Subterfuge.)