Way back, the (then minority) hardline unionist DUP and Sinn Fein respectively overtook the (relatively moderate) Ulster Unionist Party and nationalist SDLP to become the mainstream majority parties in Northern Ireland.

That shift up-ended politics in the region to this day.

This feels similar...
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The UUP is not a moderate party. They created the UVF, the one party state, gerrymandering, discrimination in housing and employment, they created the RUC, the A Specials, the B Specials, the C Specials, the Special Powers Act and internment.
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