Right. But it wasn’t just “available”, it was being shouted from the rooftops. The brexiteers had to come up with an entire conceptualization of experts as fearmongers to try to dismiss it.

I mean, yeah, you can present that as stupidity, and there’s certainly something to it, but it was also being ignored by perfectly reasonable people. I am not ready to argue that we live in an idiocracy with no recourse. Or that the UK does, anyway.

There is definitely something broken in a world where our political communication lands on that pattern over and over again, though.