Conservatives Reactionaries have been on a long diet with increasing dosages of Aresenic.
Were that diet suddenly cut/Kristol demoted: withdrawal would kill.

(Alas, it's 5+ years later ... so I guess they're in stasis until the Death of All Language.)
(So sorry that T. Pratchett didn't get the (promising?) new anti-Alzheimer protein. Bet he could run with another 'Death-of' within the Morpork pantheon.)

http://www.dailykos....er-s-and-dementia