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Throughout history when Conservative leaders have seemed moderately rational outwardly – and other moments where they have sounded animal crackers, yet were still adored by their party. We are not in that situation. A leading Tory failed to inspire attendees when she addressed her conference, even as she offered the provocative rhetoric of border-focused rhetoric she believed they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all arisen with a fresh awareness of humanity; more that they were skeptical she’d ever be in a position to implement it. In practice, an imitation. The party dislikes such approaches. A veteran Tory reportedly described it as a “jazz funeral”: loud, energetic, but nonetheless a goodbye.

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Certain members are taking a fresh look at Robert Jenrick, who was a hard “no” at the start of the night – but with proceedings winding down, and everyone else has left. Some are fostering a buzz around a rising star, a 34-year-old MP of the 2024 intake, who looks like a Shires Tory while saturating her online profiles with border-control messaging.

Could she be the figurehead to beat back the rival party, now leading the incumbents by a significant margin? Does a term exist for overcoming competitors by mirroring their stance? Furthermore, assuming no phrase fits, surely we could borrow one from fighting disciplines?

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One need not look at the US to know this, or reference Daniel Ziblatt’s influential work, the historical examination: your entire mental framework is screaming it. The mainstream right is the crucial barrier against the radical elements.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that democracies survive by appeasing the “wealthy and influential” happy. I have reservations as an fundamental rule. One gets the impression as though we’ve been catering to the affluent and connected over generations, at the cost of the broader population, and they rarely appear adequately satisfied to stop wanting to make cuts out of social welfare.

But his analysis goes beyond conjecture, it’s an comprehensive document review into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the Weimar Republic (in parallel to 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 cedes the direction.

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Boris Johnson associating with Steve Bannon was one particularly egregious example – but extremist sympathies has become so obvious now as to obliterate any other Tory talking points. Whatever became of the old-school Conservatives, who value predictability, tradition, governing principles, the UK reputation on the global scene?

Why have we lost the modernisers, who defined the country in terms of growth centers, not tension-filled environments? Don’t get me wrong, I had reservations regarding either faction as well, but the contrast is dramatic how such perspectives – the one nation Tory, the reformist element – have been erased, in favour of constant vilification: of newcomers, religious groups, welfare recipients and activists.

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Emphasizing positions they oppose. They portray protests by 75-year-old pacifists as “festivals of animosity” and display banners – British flags, Saint George’s flags, anything with a bold patriotic hues – as an clear provocation to anyone who doesn’t think that total cultural alignment is the best thing a person could possibly be.

There doesn’t seem to be any built-in restraint, where they check back in with fundamental beliefs, their own hinterland, their original agenda. Whatever provocation the political figure throws for them, they pursue. Therefore, definitely not, there's no pleasure to observe their collapse. They are pulling democratic norms down with them.