#Italeave, #Oustria, #Departugal: The best ideas for naming other countries' EU exit debates

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With Brexit accomplished, right-wing parties in a number of other European nations are already pushing for their countries to follow suit. Now, the obvious issue of import is what clever portmanteaus we can use to label new EU exit debates.

My money is on the below set of suggestions from a Ukrainian PR manager named Mikhail Golub. Seriously, maybe #Finish and #Departugal should happen just so those hashtags can become a thing. Bonnie Kristian

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.