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Throughout history when Conservative leaders have sounded almost sensible on the surface – and different periods where they have sounded completely unhinged, yet continued to be cherished by their party. This is not such a scenario. One prominent Conservative didn't energize the audience when she spoke at her conference, despite she threw out the provocative rhetoric of anti-immigration sentiment she assumed they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all awakened with a fresh awareness of humanity; rather they didn’t believe she’d ever be equipped to deliver it. It was, an imitation. Conservatives despise that. A veteran Tory was said to label it a “New Orleans funeral”: boisterous, vigorous, but still a goodbye.

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A faction is giving a fresh look at Robert Jenrick, who was a definite refusal at the beginning – but now it’s the end, and rivals has withdrawn. Some are fostering a excitement around a rising star, a young parliamentarian of the newest members, who looks like a Shires Tory while saturating her socials with anti-migrant content.

Is she poised as the leader to counter opposition forces, now surpassing the Conservatives by a significant margin? Is there a word for overcoming competitors by mirroring their stance? Furthermore, assuming no phrase fits, surely we could adopt a term from martial arts?

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You don’t even have to consider overseas examples to understand this, or reference Daniel Ziblatt’s groundbreaking study, the historical examination: all your cognitive processes is screaming it. The mainstream right is the essential firewall preventing the extremist factions.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that representative governments persist by keeping the “wealthy and influential” happy. I have reservations as an fundamental rule. One gets the impression as though we’ve been indulging the affluent and connected over generations, at the expense of the broader population, and they don't typically become adequately satisfied to cease desiring to make cuts out of social welfare.

Yet his research is not speculation, it’s an thorough historical examination into the Weimar-era political organization during the pre-war period (in parallel to the England's ruling party around the early 1900s). As moderate conservatism loses its confidence, when it starts to chase the buzzwords and superficial stances of the far right, it cedes the direction.

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Boris Johnson cosying up to a controversial strategist was a notable instance – but radical alignment has become so obvious now as to overshadow all remaining party narratives. What happened to the old-school Conservatives, who prize predictability, preservation, legal frameworks, the UK reputation on the world stage?

Where did they go the modernisers, who portrayed the nation in terms of growth centers, not tension-filled environments? Let me emphasize, I had reservations regarding either faction as well, but the contrast is dramatic how those worldviews – the inclusive conservative, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been marginalized, superseded by constant vilification: of migrants, Islamic communities, benefit claimants and protesters.

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And talk about issues they reject. They characterize rallies by elderly peace activists as “displays of hostility” and employ symbols – national emblems, English symbols, all objects bearing a vibrant national tones – as an direct confrontation to individuals doubting that total cultural alignment is the ultimate achievement a person could possibly be.

There doesn’t seem to be any natural braking system, that prompts reflection with their own values, their own hinterland, their stated objectives. Each incentive the political figure offers them, they follow. Consequently, definitely not, it’s not fun to observe their collapse. They’re taking social cohesion along in their decline.