From WSJopinion: As faith in democracy declines in the West, the U.K. took a revolutionary step and listened to voters, writes JosephSternberg
They said it wouldn’t happen, but here we are: Britain departs the European Union at 11 p.m. London time Friday. Set aside the wrangling over trade deals, future relationships, immigration and the rest of it. The 52% of voters who chose Leave in the 2016 referendum are getting what they said they wanted, and that means Brexit already is working in the way that matters most.
This is what Brexit was always going to be about. Not the wisdom or otherwise of leaving the EU, but whether democracy in the West still means voters are...
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