It is plainly possible in political life to near-perfectly insulate yourself from wider discourse. You give interviews to friendly papers, go on donor-owned TV & radio stations, hobnob with local constiuency bigwigs. When the #Johnson Brexiters told themselves the prorogation of August 2019 was "perfectly normal", the audible mass demonstration outside was probably the ONLY indicator to the waverers that their leadership had got it profoundly wrong. #stopthecoup