Hi,everyone.
I read this sentence from Bagehot of The Economist and found it too complex for me understand:
Gut feeling tells many Britons the Tories are best-suited to this job. But the hunch is more emotional than ideological—indeed, the thought that the drastic public-spending cuts a Tory government might make were motivated by doctrinaire conviction, rather than necessity, would diminish the party’s appeal rather than enhance it.
To my understanding, it means: British people trust the Tories out of instinct than logic. They think a Tory goverment might make drastic public-spending cuts , but this thought is motivated by doctrinaire conviction, not pragmatic analyse.
Then goes the cause " would diminish the party’s appeal rather than enhance it. ", I fail to catch the subject, I wonder what would diminish the party’s appeal rather than enhance it? please.
I read this sentence from Bagehot of The Economist and found it too complex for me understand:
Gut feeling tells many Britons the Tories are best-suited to this job. But the hunch is more emotional than ideological—indeed, the thought that the drastic public-spending cuts a Tory government might make were motivated by doctrinaire conviction, rather than necessity, would diminish the party’s appeal rather than enhance it.
To my understanding, it means: British people trust the Tories out of instinct than logic. They think a Tory goverment might make drastic public-spending cuts , but this thought is motivated by doctrinaire conviction, not pragmatic analyse.
Then goes the cause " would diminish the party’s appeal rather than enhance it. ", I fail to catch the subject, I wonder what would diminish the party’s appeal rather than enhance it? please.