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The seeds of this distrust lie in the broad electoral strategy Prime Minister David Cameron pursued upon becoming Tory leader. "Modernization" held that the Tories had lost their appeal to centrist voters by concentrating on such right-wing issues as immigration and Europe. His first step as leader was to downgrade those issues and focus, instead, on such progressive ones as a green energy policy of subsidizing “renewable” energy sources and increasing foreign aid. If this strategy were to convince centrist voters (and the liberal metropolitan media such as The Guardian and the BBC), however, the Cameron Tories believed that their party must advertise contempt for its reactionary supporters. On same-sex marriage, in particular, they did just that. The results were seen at...