The demographic parallels between those backing Brexit and Mr Trump’s supporters are too close to ignore — almost eerily so. Their motives are equally simplistic. Leaving Europe is to Brexiters what building a wall with Mexico is to Trumpians — a guillotine on the cacophonous multiculturalism of 21st-century life. From an empirical point of view, Mr Trump’s beautiful wall is no different to the splendid isolation of Boris Johnson, the leading Brexit campaigner: both are reckless illusions. From a poetic standpoint, however, they offer a clean solution to the alienations of the postmodern society. Winston Churchill joked that Britain and America were divided by a common language. Today blue-collar whites on both sides of the Atlantic are speaking in the same idiom. They both yearn for the certainties of a lost age.
支持退欧的群体在人口结构上与特朗普支持者如此相近(这一点近乎诡异),令人无法忽视。他们的动机也同样简单化。脱离欧盟之于退欧派就像在美墨边境修筑隔离墙之于特朗普的支持者——与21世纪喧闹多元文化的生活现实决裂。从实证角度看,特朗普的壮丽隔离墙与退欧阵营灵魂人物鲍里斯•约翰逊(Boris Johnson)描绘的“光辉孤立”景象并无不同:两者都是鲁莽的痴想。然而,从诗意角度看,他们为后现代社会的疏远提供了一种干脆的解决办法。温斯顿•丘吉尔(Winston Churchill)曾开玩笑说,英美两国被共同的语言割裂。如今,大西洋两岸的蓝领白人操着同样的惯用语。他们都渴望另一个时代的确定性。
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