Sounds very similar to this, from the original author, in the comments: The situation is not irretrievable in theory, at this point. The problem is that in pr

Sounds very similar to this, from the original author, in the comments: The situation is not irretrievable in theory, at this point. The problem is that in practice a solution requires the political elite to collectively admit the falsehood of the axioms they built their entire careers on. If an individual political leader defects from the nationalist-neoliberal consensus, then they get treated exactly the way Jeremy Corbyn was. Corbyn was a soft-brexiter -- his distrust of the EU was based on it having emerged from the EEC, as a capitalist institution: what they hated him for was for being an unreconstructed hang-over from the 1970s when Labour was actually a left-wing party. Neoliberal politicians can't admit that the crisis is rooted in neoliberal policies.