What happens in the mainstream parties matters because they are the ones running the political system.
Certainly Thatcher provided no inspiration for those women who focused their concerns on such 70s and 80s mainstream feminist matters as the right to abortion, the oppressions of a patriarchal language, sexual liberation, rape and domestic violence.
Any other model is too far outside of the mainstream to matter.
When Shugden followers, Tibetan and Western alike, attack the Tibetan Buddhist mainstream, no matter how just their criticisms are, they hammer at the Dalai Lama's saintly image and chip away at Tibetan unity.
And defeating DACA would serve a larger purpose for Stephen Miller and his allies at the White House, who are making a simple calculation that the mainstream no longer matters.
She's also — readers can decide if it's coincidental — his hero: the justice, he argues, who through her pragmatic, seat-of-the-pants jurisprudence single-handedly kept the court close to the American mainstream, particularly on matters like reproductive freedom and affirmative action.
The problem for Microsoft, according to him, is that just focusing on features and speed may work when trying to attract early adopters, but for mainstream users, it matters for more how they feel about a product and that it is aligned with their values.
It took years of campaigning for childcare to be seen as a mainstream political issue rather than a private matter for parents.
Clearly feminist metaphysics differs from the mainstream in its subject matter and background assumptions, in particular in its focus on the possible value ladenness of our concepts, categories and theories, and its attention to the potential harms of justificatory ideologies.
Jean-Marie held them together in part by using rhetoric that spoke to their fears and goals; that the same rhetoric kept the party isolated from the mainstream didn't matter, because governing was never his objective.
