>"Margaret Thatcher once called referendums ‘a device of dictators and demagogues.’ She was quoting Clement Attlee as his mid-century generation had seen or remembered how Hitler and Napoleon III used plebiscites to get popular endorsement for their decisions"
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>So do you also feel the same way about the popular vote in the US in 2016?

I don't not regard the referendum result as a decision. Unfortunately leave won. I don't regard it as "the will of the British people" its the will of a small majority of those who voted. My own view is that politicians have to accept that and move on. But moving on means campaigning about the exact terms of leaving and possibly beginning a process to campaign properly about Europe and re join. Though the Europeans may decide De Gaulle was right and say Non

Trump won the election but again on a marginal decision. the opposition needs to get its act together to oppose his extreme policies as effectively as they can and make sure the Republicans lose the next round of elections.