Brexit 'Leave' Voters Get An Unexpectedly Fast, Harsh Dose Of Reality

In democracies, politics at the national level often revolves around powerful sentiments and grand abstractions. That’s true of U.S. presidential campaigns (think, “Make America Great Again”) and it’s true of this week’s Brexit vote, in which Britain shocked the world by voting to leave the European Union. But here’s the thing. National politics is also about reality. Maybe we’re in the age of the low-information voter who ignores evidence and disdains expertise; but what interesti...