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Here Are The Most Absurd Liberal Reactions To Brexit

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As early results indicated the Leave campaign would prevail in Thursday’s U.K. referendum to leave the EU, liberal thought leaders feared Britain would crumble.

NYU professor and Time columnist Ian Bremmer said Brexit was as risky as global thermonuclear annihilation. (RELATED: BREXIT: UK Votes To Leave European Union In Shock Result)

Brexit is the most significant political risk the world has experienced since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) June 24, 2016

Atlantic writer Adrienne Lafrance feared Science Was Over.

Julia Ioffe, contributor to various fashionable and respectable journals of opinion, is preparing for another European war.

Well, at least we too will get to tell stories of interwar Europe to the grandkids. Some of us, at least.

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) June 24, 2016

She’s taking it really hard.

Friend writes from London: "I can't stop crying." #Brexit

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) June 24, 2016

Elias Isquith worried that Brexit placed the world on the wrong side of history.

I think it's great that the 21st century so far feels like a reboot of the late-19th century. The next 50 years should be hella good imo

— Elias Isquith (@eliasisquith) June 24, 2016

Jesse Singal of New York Magazine attributed Brexit, opposed by Goldman Sachs and the most powerful military alliance in the history of the world, to privilege because…

How Privilege Explains Brexit

— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) June 24, 2016

American essayist Emmett Rensin derided the Brexiteer peasants who drive his cabs.

[heres what 17 racist cab drivers think] https://t.co/2hvPREZz7O

— Emmett Rensin (@emmettrensin) June 24, 2016

He found his way to happy thoughts in the end.

but what if prime minister boris though

— Emmett Rensin (@emmettrensin) June 24, 2016

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