This has been true for 25 years. While complacent centrists were celebrating Blairite Modernity, "progressive patriotism" and selective social liberalism, a backlash simmered that's now boiling over. People who wanted to say the P word and the N word and get rid of the other. 
It sounds over simplistic. But there's *millions* of people who angrily resent being told not to think of people as other and not belonging. And they want to say slurs to people's faces. It's not different to what it was like in 2002. It's their level of confidence that's changed
And the new "your" party better get its skates on. Otherwise while they're still emailing the agenda for a special conference, there's going to be *thousands* of new racist councillors with "responsibility" for wards where houses and shops will be going up in flames every night.
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