but also pragmatic
you're really not.
Don't try and reinvent yourself as some sort of "oh, I don't know" type. You used the term Fourth Reich to describe the EU and have endlessly poured out anti-EU bile on this forum.

Soft Brexit is a remain mp illusion
no, it's a device which highlights the "hardness" of a "hard" Brexit (ie "crashing out"/WTO terms/"no deal").

Being in customs union is all of the EU control with none of the trade advantages,
whereas crashing out means having no say over the terms of trade yet still having to comply with them.....