" Brexit was not fuelled by hope for a different future. On the contrary, many Leavers believed that withdrawing from the EU wouldn’t really change things one w

" Brexit was not fuelled by hope for a different future. On the contrary, many Leavers believed that withdrawing from the EU wouldn’t really change things one way or the other, but they still wanted to do it." "This taps into a much broader cultural and political malaise, that also appears to be driving the rise of Donald Trump in the US. Amongst people who have utterly given up on the future, political movements don’t need to promise any desirable and realistic change." I know quite a few Trump voters and read quite a few forums on that discuss the GOP race, and they are expecting change ("real change" as I'm often told). I think this assumption is pretty far off. I see it a lot in the US media, but I think its some internal justification for why people might believe something different than themselves. After all, people really cannot actually be supporting Trump, right?!? A book just came out expressing part of the phenomena by Dana Loesch (conservative media whose preferred candidate also didn't win) https://www.amazon.com/Flyover-Nation-Country-Youve-Never/dp/0399563881/ https://www.amazon.com/Flyover-Nation-Country-Youve-Never/dp... - Its bit a "provocative" (ok, a lot) in tone, but might round out the discussion.