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Throughout history when party chiefs have appeared reasonably coherent outwardly – and other moments where they have come across as wildly irrational, yet continued to be cherished by their base. Currently, it's far from such a scenario. A leading Tory didn't energize the audience when she addressed her conference, despite she offered the provocative rhetoric of migrant-baiting she believed they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all woken up with a revived feeling of humanity; rather they lacked faith she’d ever be equipped to deliver it. It was, fake vegan meat. Tories hate that. One senior Conservative apparently called it a “jazz funeral”: boisterous, vigorous, but ultimately a parting.

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Certain members are taking another squiz at Robert Jenrick, who was a firm rejection at the start of the night – but with proceedings winding down, and other candidates has departed. Some are fostering a excitement around Katie Lam, a 34-year-old MP of the latest cohort, who presents as a traditional Conservative while wallpapering her social media with anti-migrant content.

Is she poised as the figurehead to counter Reform, now outpolling the Tories by a substantial lead? Is there a word for overcoming competitors by becoming exactly like them? Moreover, should one not exist, perhaps we might borrow one from martial arts?

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It isn't necessary to look at the US to understand this, or reference a prominent academic's influential work, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy: all your cognitive processes is screaming it. Moderate conservatism is the key defense preventing the far right.

The central argument is that democracies survive by satisfying the “propertied and powerful” happy. I have reservations as an guiding tenet. It feels as though we’ve been indulging the affluent and connected for ages, at the expense of other citizens, and they don't typically become quite happy enough to halt efforts to reduce support out of public assistance.

But his analysis is not speculation, it’s an thorough historical examination into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the Weimar Republic (along with the British Conservatives circa 1906). Once centrist parties loses its confidence, as it begins to pursue the terminology and symbolic politics of the radical wing, it hands them the direction.

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Boris Johnson associating with Steve Bannon was a clear case – but extremist sympathies has become so evident now as to eliminate competing party narratives. Where are the traditional Tories, who prize continuity, conservation, legal frameworks, the pride of Britain on the global scene?

Where did they go the progressives, who portrayed the United Kingdom in terms of powerhouses, not powder kegs? To be clear, I didn't particularly support both groups too, but the contrast is dramatic how those worldviews – the broad-church approach, the modernizing wing – have been erased, superseded by constant vilification: of immigrants, Muslims, social support users and activists.

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Emphasizing issues they reject. They describe demonstrations by 75-year-old pacifists as “displays of hostility” and display banners – British flags, patriotic icons, any item featuring a splash of matadorial colour – as an clear provocation to those questioning that complete national identity is the ultimate achievement a human can aspire to.

There appears to be no any inherent moderation, where they check back in with core principles, their historical context, their original agenda. Any stick Nigel Farage offers them, they’ll chase. Consequently, no, there's no pleasure to observe their collapse. They’re taking democratic norms down with them.