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On various occasions when Conservative leaders have seemed reasonably coherent on the surface – and different periods where they have come across as wildly irrational, yet were still adored by party loyalists. This is not that situation. One prominent Conservative didn't energize the audience when she spoke at her conference, even as she offered the red meat of anti-immigration sentiment she thought they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all woken up with a revived feeling of humanity; more that they lacked faith she’d ever be able to follow through. Effectively, a substitute. The party dislikes such approaches. One senior Conservative reportedly described it as a “jazz funeral”: loud, animated, but ultimately a goodbye.

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Some are having another squiz at a particular MP, who was a definite refusal at the outset – but as things conclude, and rivals has left. Some are fostering a excitement around Katie Lam, a recently elected representative of the newest members, who presents as a countryside-based politician while saturating her social media with anti-migrant content.

Could she be the standard-bearer to beat back opposition forces, now outpolling the Conservatives by 20 points? Does a term exist for defeating opponents by becoming exactly like them? Moreover, assuming no phrase fits, maybe we can borrow one from combat sports?

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One need not look at the US to know this, nor read the scholar's influential work, the historical examination: your entire mental framework is emphasizing it. Moderate conservatism is the key defense preventing the extremist factions.

His research conclusion is that democracies survive by keeping the “elite classes” happy. I’m not wild about it as an guiding tenet. It feels as though we’ve been keeping the privileged groups for ages, at the detriment of the broader population, and they never seem adequately satisfied to halt efforts to make cuts out of disability benefits.

However, his study is not speculation, it’s an comprehensive document review into the historical German conservative group during the Weimar Republic (combined with the British Conservatives circa 1906). When the mainstream right loses its confidence, when it starts to adopt the rhetoric and symbolic politics of the far right, it hands them the steering wheel.

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Boris Johnson cosying up to an influential advisor was a notable instance – but extremist sympathies has become so obvious now as to eliminate competing Conservative messages. What happened to the old-school Conservatives, who prize continuity, conservation, legal frameworks, the pride of Britain on the international platform?

What happened to the reformers, who described the United Kingdom in terms of growth centers, not tension-filled environments? Don’t get me wrong, I didn't particularly support either faction too, but it's remarkably noticeable how these ideologies – the one nation Tory, the reformist element – have been marginalized, replaced by relentless demonisation: of newcomers, Muslims, benefit claimants and activists.

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And talk about issues they reject. They portray protests by elderly peace activists as “festivals of animosity” and employ symbols – national emblems, Saint George’s flags, anything with a bold patriotic hues – as an open challenge to those questioning that total cultural alignment is the highest ideal a human can aspire to.

There doesn’t seem to be any inherent moderation, encouraging reassessment with fundamental beliefs, their traditional foundations, their own plan. Any stick Nigel Farage throws for them, they pursue. Consequently, absolutely not, there's no pleasure to watch them implode. They’re taking civil society into the abyss.