MAGA Vs. Tory

What a snub reveals about the future of conservatism

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Here’s something significant that I wanted to share with you, as part of my regular shorter posts for our most committed supporters.

These are posts about news or events that have usually gone under the radar but which, I think, tell us something important about the direction of politics.

My post today is about what happened when a certain Kemi Badenoch, the new leader of the British Tories, who is already struggling to impress, visited America and encountered some MAGA Republicans. And why I think this little moment actually tells us something much bigger about the unfolding battle over the future of the Right in the West …