We're probably heading towards another realignment of party constituents - Breitbart/nationalist Republicans look like they've gained a narrow plurality over the movement conservatives and commerce conservatives within the GOP (although the movement conservatives + commerce conservatives still outnumber the Breitbart herd), and the marriage looks like it can't last with the Breitbart/nationalist crew at the helm.
I don't think the old school southern democrats the Republicans sniped in the 80s (a key pillar of the Breitbart crowd) are welcome or would want to return to the blue team, so it may come down to whether the movement/commerce conservatives are able to unite to boot the Breitbart folks out of the GOP and into a third party, or whether the Breitbart folks keep the other factions splintered long enough to eventually boot the movement/commerce folks out or subdue them over the course of a decade or two.
The nativist/nationalists and their predecessors have acted as the pendulum for control of the House of Representatives for almost a century. Both parties are embarrassed by them but want their support, so long as they remain disenfranchised enough such that they cannot wrestle any real control of the party away. If they go independent, there would be some very interesting coalition building each cycle.
I don't think the old school southern democrats the Republicans sniped in the 80s (a key pillar of the Breitbart crowd) are welcome or would want to return to the blue team, so it may come down to whether the movement/commerce conservatives are able to unite to boot the Breitbart folks out of the GOP and into a third party, or whether the Breitbart folks keep the other factions splintered long enough to eventually boot the movement/commerce folks out or subdue them over the course of a decade or two.
The nativist/nationalists and their predecessors have acted as the pendulum for control of the House of Representatives for almost a century. Both parties are embarrassed by them but want their support, so long as they remain disenfranchised enough such that they cannot wrestle any real control of the party away. If they go independent, there would be some very interesting coalition building each cycle.
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