Boris Mas - or Artur Johnson -, one in his region, the other in his nation, have dynamited conservatism. The nicknamed and bland Catalan parvenu and the energetic cosmopolitan hero have diluted their formation in rampant and dominant populism . The spectrum of conservatism, poor and overwhelmed, babbles and revolts hardly against the deaf determination of the sovereign hallucination, pulled by the torrential populist bravery, which imposes its will on behalf of the people. The new leader impersonates his plebs and intones "Long live the chains!" The referendum is the shackle and alibi that forces Johnson and ennobles his bid. For populism, the referendum is an instrument and weapon that audits the quality of democracy and throws against it .

That is why a second referendum would be another nod to populism. The representatives do not dare to upset half of their people, wake him from his reverie and acknowledge that everything was a fable. The chameleon Miquel Corbyn - or Jeremy Iceta - will not, an accommodating survivor of the establishment who believes a little in everything; Enough to defend what you touch. Artur Johnson grows because Jeremy Iceta will never throw himself completely to stop his feet. Johnson has won the fighting he seems to have lost: there will be an extension to Brexit apparently despite himself and frightens the Labor with elections that allow the British to decide "who has to negotiate in Brussels." Johnson has a free way to dispute the release of the heirs of Nigel Colau - or Ada Farage -; agitators that fish in the stirring waters. Nationalpopulism is one thing, a single two-headed monster and the great threat of Europe, although Valls denied it with his bleak 'lucidity'. Nationalism and populism skin the representative system, feed and take turns while conservatism breaks down.

To be conservative is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, the experienced to the non-experienced, the fact to the mystery, the real to the possible, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the overabundant. It is "living up to our own fortune," recalls the thinker Oakeshott ; live in tune with the means available to them. The conservative knows how to accommodate the change that he does not encourage because he finds it tiring and finds nothing magical in adventure . The first great victory of populism was slandering and discrediting conservatism, which it fears claiming. Then he undertook the assault ... on democracy.

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