It's so amusing to see the so called educational and cultural "elite" betray their utter contempt for ordinary people when they don't get their way. The EU is an undemocratic behemoth that has moved far from being a set of trade agreements. It is now effectively a sinister attempt to socially engineer a socialist superstate by stealth. It is facilitated and enabled by people such as the professor here. What is it about democracy that allegedly intelligent people like this cannot understand? I'm heartily sick of people dredging up their own boring immigrant stories to justify a bizarre desire to destroy the country and culture that was good enough to take them in. Any pretence the EU had of being a democratic institution has long since died. As Catholics we should easily recognise the EU as being profoundly antagonistic to our faith. The way that Leave voters have been demonised and belittled is appalling and constitutes in every way a hate crime. 
I note that Professor Wasserstein is connected with the University of Chicago which gave a home to the Frankfurt School. The pernicious and anti_Christian evil propagated by that institution has done more to destroy the social and cultural fabric of Western society than any battalion of Soviet tanks ever did. The "intellectuals" who formed that socialist subversion group also conspired to overthrow the very democracy that gave them safe haven from Nazi Germany. Perhaps a little gratitude would have been more appropriate?

No democracy, then. Or at least no direct democracy, such as in Switzerland. It is entertaining to see people endorse democracy but only when the unwashed vote the way required by those who know better. No, professor, no. The point of democracy is that your learned opinion doesn't matter more or less than the opinion of the fishmonger or the bricklayer.