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There have been times when party chiefs have seemed moderately rational superficially – and other moments where they have come across as animal crackers, yet continued to be cherished by party loyalists. Currently, it's far from such a scenario. Kemi Badenoch left the crowd unmoved when she addressed her conference, even as she presented the divisive talking points of border-focused rhetoric she assumed they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all awakened with a revived feeling of humanity; instead they lacked faith she’d ever be in a position to follow through. It was, an imitation. The party dislikes such approaches. A veteran Tory reportedly described it as a “jazz funeral”: boisterous, animated, but still a goodbye.

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Some are having renewed consideration at Robert Jenrick, who was a definite refusal at the beginning – but now it’s the end, and other candidates has withdrawn. Some are fostering a interest around a newer MP, a young parliamentarian of the latest cohort, who looks like a countryside-based politician while saturating her online profiles with immigration-critical posts.

Could she be the figurehead to challenge Reform, now outpolling the incumbents by 20 points? Does a term exist for defeating opponents by becoming exactly like them? And, if there isn’t, perhaps we might adopt a term from combat sports?

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It isn't necessary to examine America to know this, or reference the scholar's influential work, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy: all your cognitive processes is shouting it. Centrist right-wing parties is the crucial barrier resisting the extremist factions.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that democracies survive by appeasing the “wealthy and influential” happy. I’m not wild about it as an fundamental rule. It seems as though we’ve been catering to the affluent and connected for decades, at the cost of the broader population, and they rarely appear adequately satisfied to stop wanting to take a bite out of social welfare.

But his analysis isn’t a hunch, it’s an comprehensive document review into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the pre-war period (combined with the British Conservatives in that historical context). As moderate conservatism becomes uncertain, as it begins to chase the terminology and superficial stances of the extremist elements, it hands them the direction.

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A key figure cosying up to Steve Bannon was a clear case – but extremist sympathies has become so evident now as to eliminate competing party narratives. What happened to the old-school Conservatives, who treasure stability, conservation, legal frameworks, the UK reputation on the world stage?

What happened to the progressives, who described the United Kingdom in terms of economic engines, not tension-filled environments? Let me emphasize, I wasn’t wild about both groups either, but the contrast is dramatic how such perspectives – the one nation Tory, the modernizing wing – have been erased, in favour of constant vilification: of migrants, Islamic communities, welfare recipients and demonstrators.

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And talk about issues they reject. They describe demonstrations by older demonstrators as “carnivals of hatred” and employ symbols – British flags, patriotic icons, any item featuring a splash of matadorial colour – as an open challenge to those questioning that total cultural alignment is the highest ideal a individual might attain.

We observe an absence of any built-in restraint, encouraging reassessment with fundamental beliefs, their own hinterland, their stated objectives. Whatever provocation the political figure presents to them, they’ll chase. So, absolutely not, it’s not fun to observe their collapse. They are pulling democratic norms down with them.