The Realignment of Western Politics Britain's vote to leave the EU is part of a tectonic shift in Western politics. An alliance of socialists and conservatives rejected the status quo of remote bureaucracy, mass immigration, and multiculturalism in favor of more self-government and the protection of settled ways of life. (Arguably the EU is a misguided object of their discontent and the political geography of Brexit is more complex, as I show below.) A similar realignment is underway in European countries such as Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, and France, where it could see anti-EU parties force similar referenda or even…