Is this really the Conservative Party we have before us? Or a new party that simply has the same name?
Plutarch tells the story of the ship which carried Theseus and his crew back to Athens from their adventures in Crete. Awed by their heroism, the Athenians preserved the ship for several centuries by removing the old planks as they decayed and replacing them with new ones. Eventually the ship consisted entirely of new material.
One of the most striking changes concerns the subject of victimhood. Conservatives used to relish accusing radicals of “playing the victim card”—hunting down victims to champion and treating British history as a history of oppression. But today they can’t resist playing the victim card themselves, even as they celebrate a decade in government. They present themselves as champions of the left-behind and looked-down upon. They rail against “entitled” elites.
A new book on conservatism, Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”, gives a good sense of this state of mind. Mr West tells the story of how he became “conserve-curious” as a young man and eventually forged his career as a conservative journalist. An amusing writer, Mr West eschews the ranting and whingeing that has become the hallmark of too many young conservatives. But his is nevertheless a story of defeat and marginalisation.
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