What ever happened to Churchill's vision?

Machjo

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"This gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance, and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship. I like to think of British and Americans moving about freely over each other's wide estates with hardly a sense of being foreigners to one another."

The Gift of a Common Tongue

While conservatives today are talking about building walls left right and centre, Churchill had expressed a vision of a future shared citizenship between Britons and Americans. What's happned between then and now to drown that vision completely in favour of here a wall, there a wall, everywhere a wall?