Some initial thoughts on the UK elections.
1. It confirms once again that when a center-right party veers to the hard right to weaken the far right, it ends up doing the opposite. After purging moderates and going full-on wingnuts and fever swamp, the Tories got decimated by Reform, not Labour.
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The Tories were never, in my opinion, "center" right. They weren't hard right, but Thatcher, like Reagan, just looks center right because both of their parties veered even further right since.
