Brexit and the Rise of the British Trumps

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This week’s EU Parliament elections sent political shockwaves across Europe, with far-right nationalist parties racking up major victories in France, Italy, and even the UK. Established parties in Britain took a pounding as voters flocked to Nigel Farage’s newly-founded Brexit Party. Only days earlier, Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May resigned in the wake of repeated failures to secure a deal on Brexit. Where does all this leave the UK’s effort to withdraw from the European Union? And what can the US, in the midst of its own anti-immigrant populist moment, learn from the turmoil across the Atlantic? Guardian columnist Owen Jones joins Mehdi Hasan to talk about the rise of British Trumpism.

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0:00.0	Hello, it's Mehdi here. This month we're taking a minute or so before each show to invite you to become a member of our podcast.
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1:32.0	Nobody wants to compromise. I mean, that's the sad tragic reality. The compromise
1:36.3	kind of ground in politics on Brexit just has been torched, incinerated. It has ceased to exist.
1:42.0	It's gone. And that I think is tragic.
1:49.6	Welcome to Deconstructed. I'm Mehdi Hassan. On today's show, you think only Americans have it
1:56.6	bad right now? You think Donald Trump is just an American phenomenon? Think again.
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