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There have been times when party chiefs have appeared moderately rational outwardly – and other moments where they have sounded animal crackers, yet remained popular by party loyalists. Currently, it's far from such a scenario. A leading Tory failed to inspire attendees when she addressed her conference, despite she presented the red meat of anti-immigration sentiment she believed they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all arisen with a fresh awareness of humanity; rather they were skeptical she’d ever be in a position to deliver it. It was, fake vegan meat. The party dislikes such approaches. A veteran Tory apparently called it a “themed procession”: noisy, vigorous, but ultimately a parting.

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Certain members are taking renewed consideration at Robert Jenrick, who was a firm rejection at the beginning – but now it’s the end, and other candidates has left. Another group is generating a excitement around Katie Lam, a recently elected representative of the newest members, who presents as a Shires Tory while wallpapering her socials with border-control messaging.

Is she poised as the figurehead to challenge the rival party, now leading the Conservatives by a significant margin? Can we describe for overcoming competitors by mirroring their stance? Furthermore, if there isn’t, perhaps we might use an expression from martial arts?

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One need not look at the US to understand this, nor read the scholar's groundbreaking study, the historical examination: every one of your synapses is emphasizing it. Moderate conservatism is the essential firewall against the extremist factions.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that representative governments persist by appeasing the “elite classes” happy. I’m not wild about it as an guiding tenet. One gets the impression as though we’ve been catering to the affluent and connected over generations, at the detriment of everyone else, and they don't typically become sufficiently content to stop wanting to reduce support out of disability benefits.

But his analysis goes beyond conjecture, it’s an archival deep dive into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the Weimar Republic (along with the British Conservatives around the early 1900s). When the mainstream right becomes uncertain, when it starts to chase the buzzwords and gesture-based policies of the radical wing, it hands them the control.

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A key figure associating with a controversial strategist was one particularly egregious example – but radical alignment has become so obvious now as to obliterate any other Conservative messages. What happened to the traditional Tories, who treasure stability, tradition, the constitution, the pride of Britain on the global scene?

What happened to the progressives, who described the country in terms of growth centers, not powder kegs? Don’t get me wrong, I had reservations regarding any of them either, but it’s absolutely striking how these ideologies – the broad-church approach, the modernizing wing – have been eliminated, replaced by relentless demonisation: of newcomers, Muslims, benefit claimants and protesters.

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And talk about issues they reject. They characterize rallies by 75-year-old pacifists as “carnivals of hatred” and employ symbols – union flags, patriotic icons, anything with a vibrant national tones – as an direct confrontation to anyone who doesn’t think that being British through and through is the highest ideal a individual might attain.

There appears to be no any natural braking system, where they check back in with fundamental beliefs, their historical context, their original agenda. Any stick the political figure presents to them, they’ll chase. Consequently, definitely not, there's no pleasure to observe their collapse. They are dragging social cohesion into the abyss.