President Donald Trump has been wise to stay out of the election in Britain; the almost insanely left-wing Labour Party was desperately hoping that Trump would provide fodder for its imaginary allegations that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is some sort of apprentice to the Sith Lord Trump. But while American officials from both parties should keep their distance from endorsements or condemnations of any figure in British politics, everyone in the West has a stake in Thursday's vote. If Johnson is returned to No. 10 Downing Street with a working majority, the United Kingdom can finally and with certainty be free of the European Union except for any agreement the U.K. and EU reach in the coming year, on terms fair to both sides and favorable to economic growth worldwide. The bureaucrats of Brussels will have received a lesson they won't easily forget, and its remaining nation-members can expect to see a loosening of the absurd excesses of the administrative state that risk further defections from the union from states that see in Britain's escape a path to renewed national energy and growth of the best sort. This is why I am rooting for Johnson and the Tories on Thursday. As a life-long Anglophile - and a descendant of both Ulster and the Republic through a green-orange marriage of immigrants from County Down and County Clare - I'm for a United Kingdom at peace with a vibrant Ireland, together serving as strong allies of freedom. The American Navy is inextricably bound to the Royal Navy, as is our common law to the ancestral common law of England. Our nations are cousins, and while the baton of leadership of the West passed from them to us in the aftermath of World War II, it isn't because of a Netflix series that we call the relationship "special," but because of shared values. It isn't the genes or the memes; it's......