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There have been times when party chiefs have appeared almost sensible on the surface – and alternate phases where they have sounded wildly irrational, yet remained popular by their party. We are not in either of those times. One prominent Conservative left the crowd unmoved when she addressed her conference, even as she offered the provocative rhetoric of migrant-baiting she assumed they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all awakened with a fresh awareness of humanity; more that they lacked faith she’d ever be able to deliver it. Effectively, fake vegan meat. The party dislikes such approaches. An influential party member apparently called it a “New Orleans funeral”: loud, animated, but nonetheless a farewell.

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Some are having a fresh look at Robert Jenrick, who was a definite refusal at the beginning – but with proceedings winding down, and rivals has withdrawn. Some are fostering a buzz around Katie Lam, a young parliamentarian of the latest cohort, who appears as a Shires Tory while wallpapering her social media with anti-migrant content.

Might she become the leader to counter opposition forces, now leading the Conservatives by a significant margin? Can we describe for defeating opponents by adopting their policies? Furthermore, if there isn’t, maybe we can adopt a term from fighting disciplines?

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One need not examine America to understand this, nor read Daniel Ziblatt’s seminal 2017 book, the historical examination: all your cognitive processes is emphasizing it. The mainstream right is the essential firewall against the far right.

His research conclusion is that democracies survive by keeping the “wealthy and influential” happy. Personally, I question this as an organising principle. It seems as though we’ve been catering to the propertied and powerful for decades, at the expense of other citizens, and they rarely appear sufficiently content to halt efforts to take a bite out of public assistance.

But his analysis goes beyond conjecture, it’s an archival deep dive into the historical German conservative group during the Weimar Republic (combined with the UK Tories around the early 1900s). When the mainstream right loses its confidence, if it commences to adopt the terminology and gesture-based policies of the extremist elements, it transfers the steering wheel.

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The former Prime Minister associating with a controversial strategist was a notable instance – but radical alignment has become so pronounced now as to obliterate any other party narratives. Where are the established party members, who treasure stability, preservation, governing principles, the pride of Britain on the international platform?

Where did they go the modernisers, who described the nation in terms of powerhouses, not volatile situations? Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t wild about either faction either, but the contrast is dramatic how those worldviews – the broad-church approach, the modernizing wing – have been erased, in favour of ongoing scapegoating: of migrants, religious groups, welfare recipients and protesters.

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While discussing issues they reject. They describe protests by 75-year-old pacifists as “carnivals of hatred” and display banners – union flags, patriotic icons, 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 human can aspire to.

There appears to be no any built-in restraint, that prompts reflection with core principles, their historical context, their stated objectives. Any stick Nigel Farage offers them, they follow. So, no, it isn't enjoyable to observe their collapse. They are pulling civil society into the abyss.