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Throughout history when party chiefs have seemed moderately rational superficially – and alternate phases where they have come across as wildly irrational, yet continued to be cherished by their base. Currently, it's far from such a scenario. One prominent Conservative didn't energize the audience when she presented to her conference, despite she threw out the red meat of border-focused rhetoric she believed they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all arisen with a revived feeling of humanity; instead they lacked faith she’d ever be able to follow through. In practice, fake vegan meat. The party dislikes such approaches. A veteran Tory was said to label it a “New Orleans funeral”: loud, animated, but ultimately a farewell.

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Some are having another squiz at Robert Jenrick, who was a hard “no” at the outset – but now it’s the end, and other candidates has left. Others are creating a interest around Katie Lam, a young parliamentarian of the newest members, who presents as a Shires Tory while saturating her online profiles with immigration-critical posts.

Might she become the leader to counter Reform, now leading the Conservatives by a significant margin? Can we describe for beating your rivals by adopting their policies? Moreover, if there isn’t, perhaps we might borrow one from martial arts?

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You don’t even have to consider overseas examples to grasp this point, or reference the scholar's influential work, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy: all your cognitive processes is shouting it. The mainstream right is the essential firewall resisting the extremist factions.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that political systems endure by keeping the “elite classes” happy. I’m not wild about it as an organising principle. It seems as though we’ve been keeping the propertied and powerful over generations, at the cost of other citizens, and they don't typically become adequately satisfied to halt efforts to take a bite out of social welfare.

But his analysis goes beyond conjecture, it’s an archival deep dive into the historical German conservative group during the Weimar Republic (along with the England's ruling party circa 1906). When the mainstream right falters in conviction, when it starts to adopt the rhetoric and symbolic politics of the far right, it transfers the steering wheel.

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The former Prime Minister cosying up to Steve Bannon was a clear case – but extremist sympathies has become so evident now as to overshadow all remaining party narratives. Where are the established party members, who prize predictability, preservation, governing principles, the national prestige on the world stage?

What happened to the modernisers, who described the nation in terms of growth centers, not volatile situations? To be clear, I didn't particularly support both groups either, but the contrast is dramatic how such perspectives – the broad-church approach, the reformist element – have been erased, replaced by ongoing scapegoating: of migrants, religious groups, benefit claimants and activists.

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While discussing what they cannot stand for any more. They describe protests by older demonstrators as “festivals of animosity” and employ symbols – British flags, Saint George’s flags, all objects bearing a vibrant national tones – as an open challenge to anyone who doesn’t think that total cultural alignment is the best thing a individual might attain.

There doesn’t seem to be any built-in restraint, that prompts reflection with core principles, their historical context, their own plan. Any stick the political figure throws for them, they follow. So, definitely not, there's no pleasure to see their disintegration. They are pulling democratic norms along in their decline.