That's what makes it fascinatingIt's an idle thought I dashed off in about a minute, not a PhD thesis.
Positing, first of all, an imaginary group of people called traditional conservatives, assigning them a quality (hating hypocrisy) and on the basis of that assuming a response to the, to whatever it is we are talking about (play badly)The thing is, that sort of hypocrisy is exactly what traditional conservatives really hate. So it will play badly with that demographic. But I wonder if these days the core Tory base is more like the MAGA lot in America, who aren't really conservatives in the conventional sense, but simply reactionaries who don't have much of an ideology and think mainly in culture-war terms, so that Bozza has obviously done gak (and probably still does) which makes him a total lad and an absolute ledge, while a proposed law to take passports away from people convicted of drug offences is also fine, as it's the sort of thing that upsets do-gooders and Guardian readers.
None of those groups are imaginary, you weirdo. There are people who wear MAGA hats and MAGA shirts, are there not? There are lads who do coke, are there not? And people who read the Guardian?Positing, first of all, an imaginary group of people called traditional conservatives, assigning them a quality (hating hypocrisy) and on the basis of that assuming a response to the, to whatever it is we are talking about (play badly)
Moving on to field a notion
Perhaps the core Tory base (who are they? What is that?) is more like the maga lot in America (who are they? What are they made of?) which is then eluded into lad ledge talk representing yet another imaginary demographic before rounding it off with guardian readers, yet another imaginary group phantom.
You're getting sucked in! Abort, abort, abort!