Forgive me, but I would suggest that Bloomberg's premise - if even the UK, "no democracy was immune to nationalism" - was in itself exceptionalist thinking.
Britiain has always been nationalistic, not exceptional. It just hid it better, with good marketing.
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Niall Ó Conghaile
This I suspect is going to be one of the better long reads about Brexit ten years after the referendum, built as it is from the strong contention of the result as the UK providing a major boost to nationalist populism, and seeing the broad impacts. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Brexit did more than pull Britain out of Europe. It showed that no democracy was immune to populist nationalism.
