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Throughout history when party chiefs have appeared moderately rational outwardly – and other moments where they have sounded completely unhinged, yet continued to be cherished by their party. Currently, it's far from such a scenario. A leading Tory didn't energize the audience when she presented to her conference, even as she offered the provocative rhetoric of anti-immigration sentiment she thought they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all woken up with a revived feeling of humanity; more that they were skeptical she’d ever be able to deliver it. In practice, fake vegan meat. Conservatives despise that. An influential party member reportedly described it as a “themed procession”: loud, vigorous, but nonetheless a farewell.

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A faction is giving another squiz at Robert Jenrick, who was a hard “no” at the outset – but as things conclude, and other candidates has departed. Another group is generating a buzz around a newer MP, a recently elected representative of the newest members, who appears as a Shires Tory while wallpapering her socials with immigration-critical posts.

Might she become the figurehead to counter the rival party, now leading the Tories by a substantial lead? Does a term exist for defeating opponents by adopting their policies? Moreover, if there isn’t, surely we could adopt a term from combat sports?

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You don’t even have to examine America to understand this, nor read the scholar's influential work, his analysis of political systems: every one of your synapses is screaming it. Moderate conservatism is the essential firewall resisting the radical elements.

The central argument is that democracies survive by appeasing the “propertied and powerful” happy. Personally, I question this as an organising principle. It seems as though we’ve been indulging the propertied and powerful for decades, at the detriment of other citizens, and they never seem quite happy enough to halt efforts to reduce support out of public assistance.

However, his study goes beyond conjecture, it’s an archival deep dive into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the pre-war period (in parallel to the British Conservatives around the early 1900s). As moderate conservatism becomes uncertain, when it starts to adopt the rhetoric and gesture-based policies of the far right, it hands them the direction.

Previous Instances Showed Some of This In the Referendum Aftermath

Boris Johnson associating with Steve Bannon was a notable instance – but extremist sympathies has become so evident now as to overshadow all remaining Conservative messages. What happened to the old-school Conservatives, who treasure predictability, tradition, the constitution, the pride of Britain on the international platform?

What happened to the modernisers, who defined the country in terms of powerhouses, not volatile situations? Let me emphasize, I had reservations regarding any of them too, but it's remarkably noticeable how these ideologies – the inclusive conservative, the modernizing wing – have been eliminated, replaced by relentless demonisation: of newcomers, religious groups, social support users and demonstrators.

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Emphasizing what they cannot stand for any more. They portray rallies by older demonstrators as “carnivals of hatred” and display banners – British flags, English symbols, anything with a vibrant national tones – as an direct confrontation to individuals doubting that being British through and through is the highest ideal a human can aspire to.

There doesn’t seem to be any built-in restraint, that prompts reflection with their own values, their traditional foundations, their own plan. Any stick Nigel Farage presents to them, they’ll chase. Therefore, absolutely not, it’s not fun to see their disintegration. They are pulling democratic norms along in their decline.