More than one in three of these wonderful, friendly, good-humoured folks that had passed by my desk had voted for the anti-EU, pro-Russian, anti-foreigner, anti-science, anti-inclusion, often neofascist illiberals, sowing hate and division.
My elation at the wonders of democracy I saw in action first hand, and the stream of all of the population coming out, was much tempered. It was not unexpected. But to see it so concretely, hard to fathom. And hard to stomach.
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