Can you help me out here, you seem to saying that they voted for firemen to help put out a fire those same firemen actually ignited.
Let's vote the country poorer so that LA's can have more money? No economics were advanced in favour of Brexit - the best they offered was it won't be as bad as some suggest - which is not ageing well as we speak. The campaign was cultural conservatism of the worst kind. That doesn't make Cummings clever any more than it makes Trump clever. It just makes them prepared to foster and ecourage ideas and behaviour to achieve political ends in ways that others were not.
In the same way that a businessman stiffing suppliers and evading responsibilities thinks they are smart and those with higher standards are idiots or "losers".