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There have been times when Tory figureheads have appeared almost sensible outwardly – and alternate phases where they have sounded wildly irrational, yet remained popular by their base. Currently, it's far from such a scenario. One prominent Conservative left the crowd unmoved when she spoke at her conference, despite she offered the divisive talking points of migrant-baiting she thought they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all arisen with a fresh awareness of humanity; more that they lacked faith she’d ever be in a position to follow through. Effectively, an imitation. Conservatives despise that. A veteran Tory was said to label it a “jazz funeral”: loud, vigorous, but ultimately a farewell.

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A faction is giving another squiz at Robert Jenrick, who was a definite refusal at the beginning – but now it’s the end, and everyone else has departed. Others are creating a excitement around a newer MP, a young parliamentarian of the 2024 intake, who presents as a traditional Conservative while filling her social media with border-control messaging.

Could she be the standard-bearer to beat back the rival party, now outpolling the incumbents by a significant margin? Is there a word for overcoming competitors by adopting their policies? Moreover, assuming no phrase fits, maybe we can use an expression from martial arts?

When Finding Satisfaction In Such Events, in a How-the-Mighty-Are-Fallen Way, in a Consequence-Based Way, One Can See Why – Yet Absolutely Bananas

You don’t even have to consider overseas examples to grasp this point, or consult the scholar's influential work, the historical examination: all your cognitive processes is emphasizing it. Centrist right-wing parties is the key defense resisting the radical elements.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that democracies survive by keeping the “propertied and powerful” happy. I’m not wild about it as an organising principle. One gets the impression as though we’ve been catering to the affluent and connected for ages, at the expense of everyone else, and they don't typically become quite happy enough to cease desiring to take a bite out of public assistance.

But his analysis is not speculation, it’s an comprehensive document review into the Weimar-era political organization during the interwar Germany (in parallel to the England's ruling party in that historical context). Once centrist parties falters in conviction, when it starts to adopt the rhetoric and symbolic politics of the far right, it transfers the direction.

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The former Prime Minister aligning with a controversial strategist was one particularly egregious example – but radical alignment has become so evident now as to obliterate any other Tory talking points. What happened to the established party members, who treasure continuity, tradition, governing principles, the pride of Britain on the international platform?

What happened to the progressives, who defined the nation in terms of growth centers, not tension-filled environments? Don’t get me wrong, I had reservations regarding both groups either, but it's remarkably noticeable how those worldviews – the broad-church approach, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been marginalized, in favour of relentless demonisation: of migrants, Islamic communities, benefit claimants and protesters.

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And talk about what they cannot stand for any more. They portray demonstrations by 75-year-old pacifists as “carnivals of hatred” and employ symbols – union flags, Saint George’s flags, all objects bearing a bold patriotic hues – as an direct confrontation to individuals doubting that complete national identity is the best thing a person could possibly be.

There appears to be no any natural braking system, where they check back in with their own values, their own hinterland, their stated objectives. Each incentive the Reform leader throws for them, they’ll chase. Therefore, no, it’s not fun to see their disintegration. They’re taking democratic norms along in their decline.