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On various occasions when Conservative leaders have sounded reasonably coherent superficially – and different periods where they have sounded completely unhinged, yet remained popular by party loyalists. Currently, it's far from such a scenario. A leading Tory left the crowd unmoved when she addressed her conference, while she presented the provocative rhetoric of anti-immigration sentiment she thought they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all arisen with a renewed sense of humanity; more that they didn’t believe she’d ever be equipped to deliver it. It was, fake vegan meat. Conservatives despise that. A veteran Tory was said to label it a “themed procession”: boisterous, energetic, but ultimately a farewell.

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A faction is giving a fresh look at one contender, who was a firm rejection at the outset – but now it’s the end, and rivals has left. Others are creating a excitement around a newer MP, a 34-year-old MP of the newest members, who presents as a Shires Tory while filling her online profiles with anti-migrant content.

Might she become the leader to beat back opposition forces, now leading the Tories by a substantial lead? Is there a word for defeating opponents by becoming exactly like them? And, should one not exist, surely we could borrow one from fighting disciplines?

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One need not look at the US to understand this, nor read a prominent academic's seminal 2017 book, his analysis of political systems: every one of your synapses is shouting it. The mainstream right is the essential firewall preventing the radical elements.

His research conclusion is that democracies survive by satisfying the “propertied and powerful” happy. Personally, I question this as an fundamental rule. It seems as though we’ve been keeping the privileged groups for decades, at the expense of everyone else, and they don't typically become sufficiently content to stop wanting to reduce support out of public assistance.

But his analysis goes beyond conjecture, it’s an archival deep dive into the Weimar-era political organization during the Weimar Republic (along with the England's ruling party in that historical context). Once centrist parties falters in conviction, if it commences to pursue the buzzwords and symbolic politics of the radical wing, it cedes the steering wheel.

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Boris Johnson aligning with an influential advisor was a clear case – but extremist sympathies has become so pronounced now as to overshadow all remaining Conservative messages. Where are the established party members, who prize continuity, tradition, governing principles, the national prestige on the world stage?

Where did they go the reformers, who portrayed the country in terms of growth centers, not tension-filled environments? To be clear, I had reservations regarding any of them too, but the contrast is dramatic how such perspectives – the one nation Tory, the reformist element – have been marginalized, superseded by constant vilification: of immigrants, religious groups, welfare recipients and demonstrators.

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And talk about issues they reject. They characterize protests by 75-year-old pacifists as “festivals of animosity” and employ symbols – union flags, patriotic icons, all objects bearing a splash of matadorial colour – as an direct confrontation to individuals doubting that total cultural alignment is the highest ideal a individual might attain.

There appears to be no any built-in restraint, that prompts reflection with fundamental beliefs, their historical context, their original agenda. Any stick the political figure offers them, they pursue. Therefore, definitely not, it isn't enjoyable to watch them implode. They’re taking civil society along in their decline.