Yeah, I think there's this idea that an elected official in a representative democracy is obliged to conform to the views of (some) of their constituents, but that's more a feature of delegate democracy. Which is something completely different.

In the specific case of Starmer, it's not clear that the stance he's taking is popular with most of the country, let alone his actual voting coalition.

* not even

The right thing in that situation is to consolidate power and end democracy

No, it’s to not exercise majority power and push from the outside

Reconstruction should not have ended until the white population was Reconstructed