There are groups that do in fact choose to live in deserts, though. The Bedouin have resisted stringent efforts to sedentarise them for some 200 years. There's a story of a C19 Syrian administrator trying to entice some Bedouin to settle and their leader replying that if they do so then they'll die

The British party stays on 20% of the vote and the US party wins a majority of the seats in a gerrymandered state on 40% of the vote

Also, a significant slice of French political opinion is increasingly turning towards a more British-style model of integration (witness Mélenchon's conversion from extreme laïcité to créolisation in the space of a decade) -- the model they want to draw on is much less stable than they think it is

And Reform's attempts to create local DOGEs as well of course