You cannot possibly worship Thatcher and MAGA at the same time

It’s not the main focus of the article, but Rafael Behr raises a good point in that it’s very inconsistent for someone to venerate both Thatcher and Trump at the same time - which is exactly what the more radical (increasingly mainstream) UK Conservative MPs and their dwindling supporters claim to do to various extents:

What British conservatives either fail to observe or refuse to acknowledge in their mindless orbit around Planet Trump is that Maga politics contains more heresies against the sacred Thatcherite creed than anything Burnham proposes. The US president hates free trade. He admires single-party regimes where a supreme ruler directs economic activity. He imposes arbitrary tariffs. He uses his office to extort money from private companies or coerce them into giving equity stakes to his government. And he acquired the power to do all of this by skilfully manipulating economic and social grievances caused by deindustrialisation - the alienation and dislocation felt by working-class communities that felt their security and dignity washed away by cold global market tides.

Worship Thatcher if you really must, despite the destruction her path ended up wreaking upon our nation. Kneel in anti-British, anti-patriotic sycophancy to Trump if you really must. You just can’t do both.