What Hillary Clinton doesn't get: It's the freedom, stupid

Americans have hit a wall of their own, after decades of abuse by the bipartisan ruling class

“Man is born free,” wrote Jean Jacques Rousseau, “and everywhere he is in chains.”

The British people decided that they had enough of the chains clamped on them by the bureaucratic nightmare known as the European Union. A lot of issues factored into their decision to check out of the Hotel EU: nonexistent borders, unchecked immigration, sclerotic regulations, oppressive rule from a distant capital.

But the upheaval is about something much bigger, more unifying and transcendent than a particular set of issues.

It’s about freedom.

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