From an interesting personal perspective of British politics, given her recent demise. One of the things that worked well for Thatcher was a version of the attitudes I'm seeing there. A navel gazing desire for ideological purity over pragmatism and actual effort, which gave her, an organized and focused person, a great way to pick off the various factions of the left one by one without having to worry all that much about the competition.

In some respects the GOP are doing something similar now with the primary process and the impact on candidates.

I'm with Andrew, I'm done with him. He's lost all coherence of his position except for a feeling that people are picking on him.