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Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of politics
  1. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.

  2. Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing.

  3. The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

Of the Second Law, Conquest gave the Church of England and Amnesty International as examples. Of the Third, he noted that a bureaucracy sometimes actually IS controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies – e.g. the postwar British secret service.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/conquests-laws-john-derbyshire/

The Second Law is also named O'Sullivan's First Law:

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/02/osullivans-first-law-in-action.php

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