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Throughout history when party chiefs have seemed reasonably coherent outwardly – and other moments where they have sounded animal crackers, yet remained popular by their party. We are not in such a scenario. A leading Tory didn't energize the audience when she presented to her conference, while she threw out the divisive talking points of migrant-baiting she assumed they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all woken up with a renewed sense of humanity; rather they lacked faith she’d ever be able to implement it. Effectively, a substitute. The party dislikes such approaches. A veteran Tory reportedly described it as a “jazz funeral”: boisterous, vigorous, but nonetheless a farewell.

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Certain members are taking renewed consideration at Robert Jenrick, who was a hard “no” at the outset – but with proceedings winding down, and other candidates has withdrawn. Others are creating a interest around Katie Lam, a young parliamentarian of the newest members, who looks like a countryside-based politician while saturating her social media with anti-migrant content.

Is she poised as the leader to beat back opposition forces, now leading the Conservatives by a significant margin? Is there a word for defeating opponents by mirroring their stance? Moreover, if there isn’t, maybe we can adopt a term from fighting disciplines?

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You don’t even have to examine America to know this, nor read Daniel Ziblatt’s influential work, the historical examination: every one of your synapses is shouting it. Centrist right-wing parties is the key defense resisting the radical elements.

The central argument is that representative governments persist by satisfying the “propertied and powerful” happy. I’m not wild about it as an fundamental rule. One gets the impression as though we’ve been catering to the propertied and powerful over generations, at the expense of the broader population, and they never seem quite happy enough to halt efforts to make cuts out of social welfare.

But his analysis is not speculation, it’s an thorough historical examination into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the interwar Germany (in parallel to the England's ruling party circa 1906). When the mainstream right loses its confidence, as it begins to adopt the rhetoric and superficial stances of the radical wing, it cedes the control.

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The former Prime Minister cosying up to a controversial strategist was one particularly egregious example – but extremist sympathies has become so pronounced now as to obliterate any other Conservative messages. What happened to the traditional Tories, who value stability, tradition, governing principles, the national prestige on the world stage?

What happened to the reformers, who portrayed the United Kingdom in terms of economic engines, not volatile situations? Don’t get me wrong, I didn't particularly support both groups either, but the contrast is dramatic how those worldviews – the one nation Tory, the modernizing wing – have been erased, in favour of relentless demonisation: of migrants, Islamic communities, welfare recipients and protesters.

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While discussing issues they reject. They portray rallies by 75-year-old pacifists as “displays of hostility” and display banners – national emblems, English symbols, all objects bearing a bold patriotic hues – as an direct confrontation to anyone who doesn’t think that complete national identity is the best thing a human can aspire to.

We observe an absence of any built-in restraint, where they check back in with fundamental beliefs, their historical context, their stated objectives. Any stick the political figure presents to them, they pursue. Therefore, absolutely not, it isn't enjoyable to see their disintegration. They’re taking democratic norms down with them.