On Thursday, Britons will vote in a referendum on whether their country should stay in the European Union or leave it. If a majority opts for “Brexit,” a long earthquake begins. It will topple the old facade of Britishness. It will disrupt, perhaps fatally, the foundations of European unity. The sense of a fateful moment suddenly peaked today, when Jo Cox, a young Labor member of Parliament, was shot to death outside her Yorkshire offices by a man said to have yelled, “Britain first!” All campaigning was suspended for the day.
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