dv said:

ms spock said:

diddly-squat said:

I think both sides will probably look to calm the farm somewhat, and whomever wins the 2028 Republican primary will do so under the guise of a significantly more moderate platform

I really hope that is where this leads.

There are a lot of emboldened white supremacists and Nazis in the Republican party now.

Look hand on heart I hope the Republican Party just dies. It has been a long time since they made any positive contribution.
The Democrats are a basic right of centre “party of management” like the NZ National Party or the German Christian Democrats, and their opponents need to be something like a Social Dem or Labor party to consistently push things forward, and the Republicans need to be taken to landfill. Quite a few Socialist candidates were elected (as part of the Democratic party) this time and perhaps they’ll form the nucleus of a new party in years to come.

Even in the best case scenarios it would take two election cycles to make this happen but my hope and fervent prayer is that this year is the start of this process.

The GOP will remake itself out of whatever happens off the back of the 2028 presidential elections.

The simple fact is that the US’s two-party system doesn’t leave a lot of room for factional offshoots – look at the Tea Party movement in the early 2010s and ultimately the MAGA movement (which essentially took over Republican idology)