A Solution from Hell.

Conspiratorial Elite Vanguard party politics and majoritarian politics: General Dynamic 

Factious opponents are of at least these three varieties:

1. The ignorant who are thereby unaware and thus no threat and consequently may generally be ignored. this is one of the reasons why elite politics can occur in the first place. a mass of indifferent or outright ignorant non-elites who just don't care or even have much more pressing problems. Just because someone doesn't know they are your opponent does not mean they are not in fact your opponent.
   
2. Those willing to compromise who are for that reason no great threat
3. The remainder generally being a minority, who might be fervently opposed, or at times mistaken, to a given faction or factions.

This is generally speaking how opponents may be fractionated, and also how conflicts can be diffused.

The self-definition, formation, and mutual destruction of competing elite factions is another issue.