Ben Harnwell

and dying from within.

And I'd like to suggest the specific character of our own civilizational decline isn't that we're being defeated from without.

And it's not that we're imploding from spiritual malaise from within.

It's that we are being betrayed by our political class.

And that is, I think, something novel and unique to the present

situation.

So going back 20 years and the beginnings of the project that we have at Tresolto, it was the idea that the reason we were losing was because

Christian democracy had lost its spine.

In continental Europe, the center right is basically Christian Democrats, which is based formally, and it's a bit like in Germany, but all across continental Europe.

It's really based or claims to be based on Catholic social teaching.

in the Anglosphere, in Australia, in the UK, that the equivalent, the positioning on the political spectrum of centre-right isn't so much Christian democratic, because we're not culturally Catholic countries, it's conservatism, which was, to take somewhat from what I said at the beginning, the idea of conserving

what is good.

But if you look at the conservative movement in the UK especially, it conserves absolutely nothing.

It goes through the motions.

It calls itself conservative.

It says, oh, we're the oldest political party in the world.

We're non-ideological.

But it's imploding now.

We are assisting at its suicide because it has abandoned all pretense.

of conserving anything and it's abandoned all pretence of promoting personal liberty.