Thatcher was Britain’s Reagan. After the Cold War, conservative politics developed a new fault line between establishment types wedded to free trade, open borders, and globalized finance and markets, with populist conservatives emerging due to the drawbacks inherent in those policies and in the failure of establishment conservatives to contest the advance of cultural Marxism. Above all though, populist conservatives are willing to fight, while establishment types ask first if fighting for what they believe is a good career move.
“Above all though, populist conservatives are willing to fight, while establishment types ask first if fighting for what they believe is a good career move.”
Only partly true. They will fight to the death for open borders.