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Throughout history when party chiefs have sounded reasonably coherent outwardly – and different periods where they have sounded completely unhinged, yet remained popular by party loyalists. This is not such a scenario. Kemi Badenoch didn't energize the audience when she addressed her conference, despite she threw out the divisive talking points of migrant-baiting she believed they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all awakened with a fresh awareness of humanity; more that they lacked faith she’d ever be equipped to implement it. It was, fake vegan meat. Conservatives despise that. One senior Conservative reportedly described it as a “New Orleans funeral”: boisterous, animated, but nonetheless a parting.

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Some are having another squiz at a particular MP, who was a definite refusal at the start of the night – but as things conclude, and everyone else has left. Some are fostering a interest around Katie Lam, a recently elected representative of the 2024 intake, who presents as a Shires Tory while saturating her socials with immigration-critical posts.

Might she become the standard-bearer to counter opposition forces, now outpolling the Tories by a significant margin? Does a term exist for beating your rivals by becoming exactly like them? Moreover, should one not exist, maybe we can adopt a term from fighting disciplines?

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You don’t even have to look at the US to grasp this point, or reference Daniel Ziblatt’s seminal 2017 book, the historical examination: your entire mental framework is shouting it. The mainstream right is the crucial barrier preventing the extremist factions.

The central argument is that political systems endure by keeping the “propertied and powerful” happy. I have reservations as an fundamental rule. One gets the impression as though we’ve been catering to the propertied and powerful for decades, at the cost of the broader population, and they don't typically become quite happy enough to cease desiring to take a bite out of public assistance.

Yet his research goes beyond conjecture, it’s an comprehensive document review into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the interwar Germany (combined with the England's ruling party in that historical context). When the mainstream right becomes uncertain, when it starts to chase the buzzwords and superficial stances of the extremist elements, it transfers the control.

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Boris Johnson cosying up to Steve Bannon was a clear case – but radical alignment has become so pronounced now as to obliterate any other Tory talking points. Whatever became of the traditional Tories, who treasure continuity, tradition, governing principles, the national prestige on the world stage?

What happened to the reformers, who portrayed the nation in terms of growth centers, not volatile situations? Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t wild about either faction either, but it’s absolutely striking how these ideologies – the one nation Tory, the modernizing wing – have been marginalized, superseded by relentless demonisation: of immigrants, Islamic communities, benefit claimants and protesters.

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Emphasizing what they cannot stand for any more. They characterize rallies by elderly peace activists as “festivals of animosity” and use flags – national emblems, English symbols, anything with a bold patriotic hues – as an direct confrontation to those questioning that total cultural alignment is the ultimate achievement a human can aspire to.

There appears to be no any natural braking system, that prompts reflection with core principles, their traditional foundations, their original agenda. Whatever provocation the political figure throws for them, they’ll chase. So, absolutely not, there's no pleasure to see their disintegration. They are dragging civil society into the abyss.