“Appeasers get eaten,” he adds. “It’s very important to remember that if people are offered two versions of a particular political brand, they will always choose the genuine one.” He notes Roosevelt’s views on conservatism. “If people are offered two conservative parties, they will choose a genuine one. If a progressive party is trying to use the vocabulary of isolationism or segregation or division, it’s the same. It is silly to do that. It isn’t evil, but it is very, very silly—maybe mortally stupid.”

This. Exactly this. Remember it, and remind your leaders of it as often as you are able.

Politicians in the established parties have the wrong end of the stick about Reform.

The population believes that their values as a nation are being eroded and that they are being taken as mugs. They are looking for some politicians who are willing to represent them. I can’t quite believe that I wrote that, or needed to write that.

I don’t think Reform is a positive choice, just a bastion of hope.