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There have been times when party chiefs have appeared almost sensible outwardly – and alternate phases where they have sounded wildly irrational, yet were still adored by party loyalists. We are not in either of those times. A leading Tory failed to inspire attendees when she presented to her conference, even as she presented the red meat of border-focused rhetoric she thought they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all woken up with a renewed sense of humanity; more that they were skeptical she’d ever be in a position to follow through. Effectively, a substitute. Conservatives despise that. A veteran Tory reportedly described it as a “themed procession”: boisterous, vigorous, but still a parting.

What Next for the Organization With a Decent Case to Make for Itself as the Top-Performing Political Organization in Modern Times?

Some are having renewed consideration at one contender, who was a firm rejection at the outset – but as things conclude, and rivals has left. Another group is generating a interest around a newer MP, a recently elected representative of the newest members, who appears as a Shires Tory while saturating her online profiles with anti-migrant content.

Might she become the figurehead to challenge the rival party, now outpolling the incumbents by a significant margin? Is there a word for beating your rivals by mirroring their stance? Moreover, assuming no phrase fits, maybe we can use an expression from martial arts?

Should You Take Pleasure In These Developments, in a How-the-Mighty-Are-Fallen Way, in a Serves-Them-Right-for-Austerity Way, That Is Understandable – But Absolutely Bananas

You don’t even have to examine America to know this, or reference Daniel Ziblatt’s seminal 2017 book, the historical examination: all your cognitive processes is shouting it. The mainstream right is the crucial barrier resisting the extremist factions.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that political systems endure by satisfying the “propertied and powerful” happy. I have reservations as an fundamental rule. It feels as though we’ve been keeping the propertied and powerful for ages, at the detriment of other citizens, and they rarely appear sufficiently content to cease desiring to make cuts out of disability benefits.

However, his study isn’t a hunch, it’s an archival deep dive into the Weimar-era political organization during the Weimar Republic (along with the UK Tories around the early 1900s). As moderate conservatism becomes uncertain, when it starts to adopt the rhetoric and superficial stances of the far right, it transfers the control.

Previous Instances Showed Similar Patterns In the Referendum Aftermath

The former Prime Minister aligning with a controversial strategist was a clear case – but far-right flirtation has become so pronounced now as to eliminate competing Conservative messages. Where are the established party members, who prize predictability, tradition, the constitution, the pride of Britain on the global scene?

Why have we lost the modernisers, who portrayed the country in terms of economic engines, not powder kegs? To be clear, I didn't particularly support both groups too, but it's remarkably noticeable how such perspectives – the inclusive conservative, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been erased, superseded by ongoing scapegoating: of newcomers, religious groups, welfare recipients and demonstrators.

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Emphasizing positions they oppose. They describe protests by older demonstrators as “carnivals of hatred” and employ symbols – union flags, patriotic icons, anything with a splash of matadorial colour – as an open challenge to those questioning that total cultural alignment is the ultimate achievement a individual might attain.

We observe an absence of any inherent moderation, where they check back in with their own values, their traditional foundations, their original agenda. Any stick the political figure offers them, they’ll chase. Therefore, absolutely not, it’s not fun to observe their collapse. They are dragging social cohesion down with them.