There is still time...

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... for the Progressive Alliance to come to their senses;

drop the "coalition" deal which would bring anti-democratic forces into the Government of the country;

and return to negotiating confidence/supply deals with both the URL and the IDT.

This blunder which has crippled the new Seneschalsqåb before it has even started is reversible.

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... and thankfully, there was still time. It took until the IDT leader revealed himself as an admirer of actual antisemitic, misogynist fascist Nick Fuentes.

Three cheers to the Progressive Alliance for understanding their mistake and rectifying it. Rectifying errors is the true test of character. There are degrees of rectification, however. First step: reverse the mistake. Second step: work out why the mistake happened, so it won't happen again.

My analysis is that this mistake follows on from what the URL has identified as the Progressive Alliance's major political weakness - a determination to have a political "tent" so big that absolutely everyone can get inside (as long as they "play nice"). Well, in the last few days, Talossa's big tent has made for quite a circus.

To quote once more from my speech to the founding Convention of the URL, the PA is:

not held together by shared politics, but by friendships, by its internal culture. In a party which is a "social club" writ large, it's not a surprise that the party should have no distinctive politics of its own...

And an "apolitical party" produces an "apolitical politics" for Talossa. Confused? What I mean is: a politics that essentially holds that Talossa should not have politics. That debate about different visions of Talossa's future, its raison d'être (sorry, raziun d'estar), its institutional nature, is divisive and unseemly - even that it "drives away prospectives" - and that elections should reduce partly to deciding a team of administrators for the next six months, and partly to one of those funny things that Talossans do to be quirky.

Until it was almost too late, Cxhn. Maltezos' reactionary politics were seen by the PA leadership as a funny little quirk; a teenager being edgy. Max successfully "hid his power level", as they put it, until he was an actual Cabinet minister-designate. This should cause us all pause. But let's remember how, just a few days ago, PA leaders responded to the URL saying that bringing this guy into the Government was a bad move:

It's not a good idea to try to scare people by lying about your political opponents, since it creates a lot of animosity and scares people.  And also we just saw how it doesn't work. 

The URL leadership's penchant for personal attacks and hyperbole is the very reason you lost this election, but by all means double down on your vindictive approach.

Ironic, given that the PA's sky-is-falling emails about the Public Process Act are probably what won them the election. Clearly "scare people by lying about your opponents... personal attacks and hyperbole" does work.

But: on the subject of Monarchist Max, the URL called it as we saw it, and we called it right. The PA almost locked themselves into a deal with an actual groyper, in preference to the party which they admit is not far from them politically, but whom they seem to personally resent.

I hope that the lesson the PA will draw from this is: politics matter. Principles matter. Building a governing majority on a political program is preferable to building one based on "whoever comes into the big tent and salutes is one of us".

Once again: three cheers to the Progressive Alliance for understanding their mistake and rectifying it.