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There have been times when Conservative leaders have sounded almost sensible outwardly – and alternate phases where they have sounded animal crackers, yet were still adored by their base. We are not in that situation. One prominent Conservative left the crowd unmoved when she spoke at her conference, while she offered the divisive talking points of anti-immigration sentiment she assumed they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all woken up with a revived feeling of humanity; instead they didn’t believe she’d ever be equipped to follow through. It was, an imitation. The party dislikes such approaches. One senior Conservative was said to label it a “themed procession”: loud, energetic, but ultimately a goodbye.

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Certain members are taking renewed consideration at Robert Jenrick, who was a hard “no” at the beginning – but with proceedings winding down, and everyone else has withdrawn. Others are creating a excitement around Katie Lam, a recently elected representative of the latest cohort, who looks like a Shires Tory while saturating her social media with immigration-critical posts.

Might she become the figurehead to challenge opposition forces, now outpolling the Conservatives by 20 points? Is there a word for overcoming competitors by becoming exactly like them? Furthermore, if there isn’t, maybe we can adopt a term from combat sports?

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You don’t even have to look at the US to know this, nor read the scholar's influential work, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy: all your cognitive processes is screaming it. Centrist right-wing parties is the key defense preventing the extremist factions.

His research conclusion is that democracies survive by satisfying the “elite classes” happy. I have reservations as an guiding tenet. One gets the impression as though we’ve been catering to the privileged groups for ages, at the cost of other citizens, and they don't typically become quite happy enough to stop wanting to reduce support out of disability benefits.

Yet his research goes beyond conjecture, it’s an archival deep dive into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the pre-war period (along with the British Conservatives circa 1906). When the mainstream right becomes uncertain, as it begins to adopt the rhetoric and superficial stances of the extremist elements, it hands them the direction.

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A key figure associating with a controversial strategist was a clear case – but extremist sympathies has become so pronounced now as to overshadow all remaining Conservative messages. Whatever became of the old-school Conservatives, who treasure predictability, preservation, governing principles, the national prestige on the international platform?

What happened to the progressives, who described the country in terms of growth centers, not volatile situations? Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t wild about any of them too, but the contrast is dramatic how these ideologies – the one nation Tory, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been eliminated, superseded by ongoing scapegoating: of newcomers, Islamic communities, social support users and activists.

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And talk about issues they reject. They characterize demonstrations by 75-year-old pacifists as “carnivals of hatred” and use flags – British flags, Saint George’s flags, anything with a bold patriotic hues – as an direct confrontation to anyone who doesn’t think that total cultural alignment is the ultimate achievement a person could possibly be.

We observe an absence of any natural braking system, that prompts reflection with core principles, their own hinterland, their own plan. Whatever provocation the Reform leader presents to them, they’ll chase. So, definitely not, it’s not fun to watch them implode. They’re taking democratic norms into the abyss.