Commentary The travails of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson are difficult for outsiders to appreciate. In the Brexit crisis, Johnson ended the greatest failure of British parliamentary government since the American Revolution, if not the English Civil War. For several years after narrowly voting (52 percent) to leave the European Union in 2016, Britain had a counterfeit government promising to follow the people’s instruction to leave while in fact attempting to remain and calling it departure. Faced with a parliamentary majority of remainers and a Conservative Party and national majority of leavers, the government of Theresa May waffled and ended up with almost no support, since she was neither a leaver nor a remainer, nor a magician. Boris Johnson faced a parliamentary majority that withheld its confidence from him and, with the connivance of an especially egregious speaker of the House of Commons (John Bercow), declined to support his request …