I’m interested in your take on Hiyakuta Naoki’s new Conservative Party, and it’s impact on the LDP’s right wing base. I personally think a lot of people underestimates his name value as a best selling writer.
Intelligent and measured as usual. But you underrate the Ishin factor for both members of the coalition as both have the option of allying with it. I suspect LDP-Ishin coalition would see the latter destroyed given its reliance on floating voters who following the precedent of SP/Jiyuto in the 1990's would blame it for the LDP's failures. But it would give them a chance for national influence. Of course the fundamental contradiction of Ishin remains, its urban localist agenda and nationalist-populist agenda are at cross-purposes.
I'm not sure what you mean by the last sentence. The aspect of Ishin that has struck me as contradictory is how it distinguishes itself as the opposition party with experience and competence (unlike the centre-left), yet its actual national platform is maximalist and absolutist and frankly batshit.
? Its pretty generic right wing Japanese stuff, its no more maximalist/"batshit" than most LDP platforms. Its definitely less so than the Sanseito or whatever the NHK party was.
Their most radical proposal is moving to larger "regions" which is not the stuff of either populist or fascist revolutions. Along with some rather 1990's anti-LDP rural machine vibes.
I’m interested in your take on Hiyakuta Naoki’s new Conservative Party, and it’s impact on the LDP’s right wing base. I personally think a lot of people underestimates his name value as a best selling writer.
Intelligent and measured as usual. But you underrate the Ishin factor for both members of the coalition as both have the option of allying with it. I suspect LDP-Ishin coalition would see the latter destroyed given its reliance on floating voters who following the precedent of SP/Jiyuto in the 1990's would blame it for the LDP's failures. But it would give them a chance for national influence. Of course the fundamental contradiction of Ishin remains, its urban localist agenda and nationalist-populist agenda are at cross-purposes.
I'm not sure what you mean by the last sentence. The aspect of Ishin that has struck me as contradictory is how it distinguishes itself as the opposition party with experience and competence (unlike the centre-left), yet its actual national platform is maximalist and absolutist and frankly batshit.
? Its pretty generic right wing Japanese stuff, its no more maximalist/"batshit" than most LDP platforms. Its definitely less so than the Sanseito or whatever the NHK party was.
Their most radical proposal is moving to larger "regions" which is not the stuff of either populist or fascist revolutions. Along with some rather 1990's anti-LDP rural machine vibes.