At The Atlantic, the case that the people should not have had a referendum because the issues are too complex for regular people. Funny, but that's the attitude of the EU towards the peasants on everything.Similar enough to the attitude of the US Feds towards the states.
German President Responds to Brexit Vote: The Elites are Not the Problem, the People Are the Problem
So get new people. Oh, they did: Muslims who hate them.
And one more on the same theme: The EU-Progressive Paradigm Is Falling Apart - The rise of populist and patriotic passion:
... the transnationalists created yet another institution that would subordinate the nations of Europe to its control, on the debatable assumption that the carnage of two world wars was wrought by national particularism. They confused genuine patriotism and love of one’s own way of living, with the grotesque political religions of fascism and Nazism, both as much avatars of illiberal tribalism as nationalism grown toxic. Thus was born the supranational EU, which began modestly in 1958 with the European Economic Community, and then relentlessly expanded over the years into today’s intrusive, unaccountable bureaucracy of anonymous technocrats that has concentrated power in Brussels at the expense of national sovereignty.
Similarly, in the US the progressives of the early 20th century began transforming the American Republic based on similar assumptions. They believe that economic, social, and technological progress rendered the Constitution––particularly its separation of powers, checks and balances, and federalist protections of the sovereignty of the states––an anachronism. “The age of enlightened administration had come,” F.D.R. proclaimed, and he set about creating the federal bureaus and agencies that have over the years expanded in scope and power, and increasingly encroached on the rights and autonomy of the states, civil society, and individuals.
