> Globalism is really a remarkable belief system. How can the U.K. leaving a trade union generate such strong feelings across the Atlantic? You could turn that

> Globalism is really a remarkable belief system. How can the U.K. leaving a trade union generate such strong feelings across the Atlantic? You could turn that question on its head: Why did so many people inside the UK have strong feelings about an objectively beneficial trade union? The answer is of course that this is not what the EU is. There have always been the two poles about what the goal of the EU should be: The one extreme being a simple trade union between otherwise independent nations, the other being a full-fledged federal state like the US, with a single federal government and legislative body. The reality is that it's neither of the two but some sort of hodgepodge compromise somewhere in the middle. Ironically, the UK have been some of the strongest proponents of the "trade union" side in the past. But apparently for the brexiteers even that compromise was too much.