Brexit like communism is destined to be something that would have been a glorious success if only it was done right. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/22/eu-has-outsmarted-uk-every-turn/

Remember the pure Brexit view is that the worst parts of the Withdrawal Agreement such as the Northern Ireland protocol and financial settlement were supposed to be overturned by the following agreement. Many really believed this...

And there weren't supposed to be trade-offs between sovereignty and access to the single market. The EU would give way. Those of us who pointed out that was unrealistic were told we were wrong...

Drones instead of the Irish border, mythical WTO rules that would make it illegal for the EU to impose non-tariff barriers, Ireland cut off from the Single Market - all theories as to how the UK would beat the EU, all gone by the wayside.

The classic Kafka quote, “Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy” seems apt. The big dreams being replaced by a haggle over fish.

The Brexit ultras didn't win, because their view of the world couldn't win, because it isn't reality. Deal or no-deal. The dream that couldn't be. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/economics-and-finance/the-brexit-dream-is-dying-no-deal-european-union-ireland

But remain lost as well. As so far did we dull centrists who hoped the UK could find a new path. And our tribes scarcely talk to each other meaningfully.

Deal or no-deal the 2021 challenge is to start putting the UK back together again. Going to be difficult with a government trying to balance its Brexit community with global realities, while ignoring the rest of us. But that's what's needed. /end