He then points to Mboya’s ideological line (the social democrat who disdained “socialist adventurists”). Since Mboya was the right’s main weapon against the KANU left, and since he was ideologically motivated by Nyong’o’s own admission, and on two of the central issues that split the nationalist
coalition, I think there’s enough evidence of ideological conflict to justify us in turning down your interpretation of that sentence.
I still disagree and could elaborate, but we've also gone way off track. We're in agreement that the left-liberal faction is too brittle to stop the right anytime soon, and that one cause of liberalism's decline is having been made to admit its stated principles are not sincerely held.
Those principles are deemed legitimate only as part of a compromise in a latent social conflict, and the factions of that conflict tend not to value the compromise for itself. Liberalism is trying to 'play for a draw' but that's not coherent.