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The Democratic Party is about to Undergo a Serious Ideological Shift
Nearly a year ago I predicted the downfall of the Republican Party. I won’t make any grand prognostications for exactly when and how the Republican Party will cease to be because while it could be utterly decimated in the next few days with the Senate impeachment of Donald Trump, it could also limp on divided and largely irrelevant for the next few years. It’s even possible the Grand Old Party will linger on for decades and eventually re-establish itself as a relevant part of our democratic republic. But for the time being it has become incompatible with American ideals of equality, liberty, and justice for all and also democracy.
But this does not mean that all those Republicans who voted for candidates some of whom were appalled by the events of January 6 and others who participated will just gasp in realization of the irrelevance of their Party and either become diehard Democrats or snap out of existence. I can name a few Republicans I wish would do the latter, but I will refrain. What I’m saying is that those Republican voters and even those Republican candidates will have to go somewhere.
It is weird for our system, which is essentially Parliamentarian, to have been just a two-Party system for so long. And for this discussion I will ask the reader to refrain from thinking about the Presidency. I…
