Must be very hard to understand what is happening with Brexit given the confidence of US commentators that it is a wicked, Trump-like idea, focussed on preventing immigration.
Because actually, it's about whether we become part of a European empire or recover our independence. I know how US citizens would vote if their own country was to be subsumed into, say, an empire of all countries in the Northern and Southern American continents. You'd say no thanks, just like we are.