Tom Friedman: When You Elect People Who Don’t Have Plan ‘B’ What You Get Is Brexit

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FRIEDMAN: “Well you know, I just came from London. I was there for the past couple of days. You want to see what happens when someone wins office or wins a national position and they only have one paragraph? They got their rage paragraph. In London it was Brexit. We’re going to get out of the E.U. Everything is going to be fine. The heath care service's fine. We're gong to be fine. It’s all going to be good. And then the morning after comes and it turns out they have no second paragraph. They have actually no way of delivering on it. London today politically is — I was educated there. I got married there, it is in a mess I have never seen before. Because they have no idea how to actually do Brexit. Now, when I listen to Bannon, all the things about globalists and free trade, we’re going to wreck all this stuff. They have no second paragraph. Ask Steve Bannon, what actually is your philosophy for — how are we going to do this actually? Are we going to grow incomes for middle class people while we disconnect in a connected world? And show me some place on the planet other than North Korea where that's working out. OK? So He actually has no second paragraph to your question, Mika. So it's great, yeah, rage and I'm going to -- we’re going to push back on the system. When you elect people who have no second paragraph, what you get is Brexit. And what you got in London today, ask them how is it working out for you?”