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There have been times when Tory figureheads have sounded moderately rational on the surface – and other moments where they have sounded animal crackers, yet remained popular by their party. This is not such a scenario. One prominent Conservative left the crowd unmoved when she presented to her conference, even as she offered the provocative rhetoric of migrant-baiting she assumed they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all arisen with a fresh awareness of humanity; rather they didn’t believe she’d ever be equipped to implement it. In practice, an imitation. The party dislikes such approaches. An influential party member was said to label it a “jazz funeral”: loud, animated, but ultimately a parting.

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Certain members are taking a fresh look at a particular MP, who was a firm rejection at the start of the night – but now it’s the end, and everyone else has withdrawn. Others are creating a interest around a rising star, a recently elected representative of the newest members, who looks like a countryside-based politician while saturating her socials with anti-migrant content.

Could she be the leader to beat back opposition forces, now leading the Conservatives by 20 points? Is there a word for defeating opponents by mirroring their stance? Furthermore, if there isn’t, surely we could use an expression from fighting disciplines?

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One need not consider overseas examples to know this, nor read Daniel Ziblatt’s influential work, his analysis of political systems: all your cognitive processes is screaming it. Moderate conservatism is the key defense preventing the extremist factions.

His research conclusion is that political systems endure by satisfying the “elite classes” happy. Personally, I question this as an fundamental rule. It seems as though we’ve been keeping the propertied and powerful for ages, at the expense of the broader population, and they never seem adequately satisfied to cease desiring to take a bite out of disability benefits.

But his analysis isn’t a hunch, it’s an comprehensive document review into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the Weimar Republic (combined with the England's ruling party in that historical context). Once centrist parties loses its confidence, if it commences to pursue the terminology and superficial stances of the far right, it transfers the direction.

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A key figure aligning with Steve Bannon was a clear case – but far-right flirtation has become so pronounced now as to obliterate any other party narratives. Where are the old-school Conservatives, who treasure continuity, conservation, governing principles, the pride of Britain on the world stage?

What happened to the progressives, who defined the nation in terms of powerhouses, not powder kegs? Let me emphasize, I had reservations regarding any of them too, but it’s absolutely striking how such perspectives – the one nation Tory, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been eliminated, in favour of relentless demonisation: of migrants, religious groups, benefit claimants and activists.

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Emphasizing what they cannot stand for any more. They characterize rallies by 75-year-old pacifists as “carnivals of hatred” and employ symbols – British flags, patriotic icons, anything with a bold patriotic hues – as an direct confrontation to those questioning that total cultural alignment is the highest ideal a individual might attain.

There appears to be no any inherent moderation, that prompts reflection with fundamental beliefs, their traditional foundations, their original agenda. Any stick the political figure throws for them, they pursue. Consequently, no, there's no pleasure to see their disintegration. They’re taking civil society down with them.