Today’s British Brexit from the European Union and resignation of PM David Cameron is a victory for the British people. Within the next two years, expect that Britain will become more independent of the dictates of Brussels’ Euro bureaucrats and return to its traditional role as the closest American ally in Europe. Meanwhile, the Brexit is good news for Donald Trump and undermines Hillary, who like Obama opposed Brexit.
The timing of Trump’s landing in Scotland was perfect. Now, after his successful press conference supporting the vote of the British people, he should forgo his business ventures and try to appear with Boris Johnson, one of the main supporters of the Brexit. As maverick and outspoken as Trump, Johnson is the author of a formidable book on Winston Churchill, and an admirer of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. In the wake of David Cameron’s resignation and coming new elections, the former popular mayor of London is perhaps Britain’s future Prime Minister.
The Brexit surely helps Trump’s election campaign and not just because Johnson is Trump’s natural ally. Like Trump, he is an advocate of restricted immigration and protection of his country’s borders. The Brexit also represents a defeat for President Barack Obama, who was again poorly advised by his NSC to get involved in the British debate and put his presidency behind the Cameron government. He should have remained neutral and not tried to meddle in Albion’s internal affairs
Trump has wisely capitalized on this Brexit windfall. He should not, however, squander the opportunity to propose that he would respond to a new strategic situation in Europe by strengthening the role of NATO in the Atlantic alliance. (Of course he’s right that our allies must contribute more to the joint costs and some already do).
Forget the major decline of the European stocks, the crashing of the British pound, the rising price of gold and the cry for help of Euro bureaucrats in Brussels. The Brexit victory only threatens their cushy jobs. It represents a new hope for Great Britain as well as for Europe and even for America.
The Euro experiment has failed. It was based on a vertical integration structure and monetary policies centered around a common currency-- the Euro—yet without the close coordination of fiscal policy by EU members. Not the market, as in America, but the Brussels bureaucracy, were determinant in investment allocation. That’s a recipe for eventual disaster and the EU was consequently doomed to fail. The default of Greece and deluge of Europe by hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees only exposed further the existing fault lines within the European Union.
Note that the main loser of the Brexit is Germany. In two world wars the Germans sought to unify Europe, first by authoritarian and then totalitarian integration, structured around Berlin’s military and economic might. They failed as America and her allies twice liberated Europe from German domination. This time, democratic and powerful Germany failed because of the vertical, bureaucratic integration she pursued together with France. Ironically, it is also because a democratic Germany in the last few years adopted a well meant, but Utopian approach to massive Muslim immigration from Middle East countries which practice Sharia law.
Sadly, Chancellor Angela Merkel is also partly responsible for the resultant wave of Islamic terrorism that has engulfed France and Belgium and further undermined the foundations of the EU. There is little more than nostalgia that would permeate the meeting scheduled for Saturday the 25th of Germany with the six, original founding members of the EU. The UK is definitely gone, Scotland might be joining the EU, but Demark, Sweden and perhaps Italy seem ready to follow the UK’s example.
Like it or not, Trump was right, basing his campaign on Andrew Jackson’s mercantilism and a new economic and strategic nationalism. To him the only way to prevent the further decay of America is to return to “America first,” not the anti-Semitic minded, isolationist America of the late 1930’s, but a modern, more mature and more democratic America that still protects its own vital national security by taking full control of its borders and immigration. Did you notice that the U.S. Supreme Court just issued another blow to Obama’s attempt to pursue immigration by executive orders?
While at times clumsily advocating restrictions of immigration from the Islamic world, Trump is seeking to follow FDR’s tough WWII policies aiming at curbing attacks on our homeland by potential Nazi infiltrators. The recent Islamist attack in Orlando, where Obama tried to censor references to Islam by the gunman, further accentuates the desirability of a Trump presidency.
In the following months, Trump not only needs to reorganize his campaign and fundraising, but prepare himself by voracious reading and sparring with a debate partner. Ronald Reagan used George Will in this endeavor. One significant gaffe can undermine all his efforts in the presidential debates.
In a nutshell, the British people decided that Brexit is not going to be a disaster for their country in spite of the advocacy of Barack Obama and muted Hillary Clinton. Trump is right. The British people, like the American people, desire to take control of their own country and are determined to defeat the new totalitarian menace, Islamic fascism.
