Isn’t this just the Lib Dems being squeezed out by the Labour and Conservative parties in the UK? In this analogy, Labour is Democrats, Lib Dem is old GOP, Conservative is Patriot Party.
Polarization baybee. I don’t think I like that comparison though, Labour at least can be cool sometimes. I also don’t know if it would play out the same. We know 33ish% of Republicans will instantly go to Trump, which for electoral prospects is probably fatal for the new and old party. The Libertarians were more than the difference between Trump and Biden in a bunch of states, another fracturing in the republican party would probably do even more damage.
That still leaves 66% of Republicans who don’t instantly switch allegiances. If they get bolstered by the conservative Dems leaving to join the new “Centrist” party then they would probably do better because America. It’s a new political Cool Zone, they sky is the limit but so is Hell.
I’ve been more and more convinced that maybe the third worldist are onto something where they say that revolution probably won’t happen in the imperial core. Capital is just so strong and labor sits on top of exploitation of other labor and think it is just.
