let me put my political scientist hat on and do some analysis here. there are three real identifiable factions in the SNP, and anyone suggesting that the alignments are different is essentially high on ket: 1. sturgeonites, 2. salmondites, 3. and the populist left.
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all of these are broad stroke brushes, and encapsulate smaller competing traditions of thought with regard to scottish nationalism, scottish identity, social justice and so on. but these are the three informal factions that you see currently duking it out.
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Sturgeonism is not an ideology: it is a broad spectrum of what you could call essentially the Not Populists of the SNP, ranging from mild democratic socialists through the average social democrat party member to pragmatic centrists. eg. Sturgeon, Mackay, Somerville.
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Salmondism is closer to both an ideology and a personality cult. It represents a kind of centrist populism, the same promises of "a fairer Scotland" that everyone in the SNP does, but underlied by neoliberal economics, populist nationalism and apparently transphobia.
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Its current tensions with Sturgeonism are currently becoming fairly severe and dangerous; but Salmondism has no future, same as the person it is centered around has no political future. The party youth and student wings reject its tenets completely.
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And @Out4Indy the LGBTQ+ wing of the party X
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