Well of course, Paul, the vote for Brexit caught a lot of Tories by surprise, and ended the political career of David Cameron.  Theresa May, current leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister, has said that "Brexit is Brexit", and will be implemented.  Of course, Brexit caught everyone by surprise, and if implemented will have all sorts of work-arounds to keep trade going among the two Irelands, Scotland, England and Wales.  GB kept the pound, we'll see how strong that turns out to be.

The parallel is the populist uprising for Trump, a Washington outsider, right?  How bad could that be?  His advisers will have to persuade him to keep cool about foreign relations, and I think he would be a patsy for the awful economic policies of Paul Ryan, with whom Trump would have to work. I don't see any good scenario emerging from a Trump victory, and I think his bumbling could make a lot of things a lot worse for the very people who will vote for him.

If that's over the top, I plead gui