Whereas what the today's 'centre-right' demographic base actually wants is something akin to what the early SDP was proposing: participatory, localist social democracy for the middle classes, with no great desire for redistribution or egalitarianism but no real hostility to the state either
But I think Matt Y made the point that the Republicans (and I think this will apply to Tories too) may be electorally succesful, but their new electoral base will make them socially miserable, which I think is why you see so much resentment from formerly insightful Right wingers who stayed on X.
Absolutely the case imo
> may be electorally succesful I don't think it is. US - under this 'new coalition'(/pivot from old coalition), they've had a one-term President and they're on course for another one (w/out external inflation!) UK - they done beat Jeremy Corbyn ... and then went to their worst result in hist.
(Bad tasting medicine is not - outside of fiction - a reliable guarantee of effectiveness)
(If it wasn't clear, by this I'm talking about the base the Lib Dems have now!)