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MAGA / Trumpism and UK Conservative Party
Measured distance across six axes
The same broad family. They agree within three points on EC, CU, SC. No axis separates them by eight points or more.
Axis by axis
| Axis | MAGA / Trumpism | Tories | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | +04 | +06 | 2 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +08 | +05 | 3 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +06 | +02 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +02 | +03 | 1 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +07 | +03 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| CH · Method and tempo | +01 | −05 | 6 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
Each axis runs from −10 to +10; the distance is the straight-line separation across all six at once, out of a maximum of 49.0. How the scoring works →
The evidence behind the widest gaps
A distance figure is worth nothing unless the scores behind it can be checked. These are the artefacts supporting the axes that separate these two most.
MAGA / Trumpism · CH +01
Coded +1, the lowest of the axes here, and the reason the entry sits far from the interwar coordinates.
- Documented act or statutePower has been sought and held through elections, primaries, litigation and appointments throughout.
- ScholarshipThe events of 6 January 2021 are the single fact that keeps this above zero, and specialists divide on how much weight it carries.
Tories · CH −05
Coded −5: incremental by disposition, with Brexit as a deliberate discontinuity achieved by referendum.
- Documented act or statuteEU withdrawal was pursued through referendum, legislation and treaty rather than outside them.
What this comparison does not establish
Proximity means similarity of stated position. It carries no claim about competence, circumstance, scale of operation, or what either organisation actually did to the people under it. Two organisations can sit close together and produce entirely different histories, because those things are not on any axis and could not be.
MAGA / Trumpism
2015– · United States
National restoration through a leader who claims to embody the real people against a corrupt establishment; borders, tariffs and sovereignty.
UK Conservative Party
1834– · Britain
Fiscal restraint, national sovereignty, property ownership, controlled migration, gradualism.
Distance is not the whole answer. Two organisations can sit the same distance apart for entirely different reasons, and the reason is the content of any claim about them. Open the comparison in the atlas to weight the axes yourself.
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