How many more national elections until Democratic fatigue?

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However many it takes.


Since the 1860 Republican presidential realigning election, here were the minority-realigned, two-term presidents:

• Grover Cleveland, Democrat, non–consecutive (1884, 1892)
• Woodrow Wilson, Democrat (1912, 1916)
• Dwight Eisenhower, Republican (1952, 1956)
• Bill Clinton, Democrat (1992, 1996)

With 2008 the most recent start of a realigning period, for the Democrats, the Republicans will have to come up with a nationally appealing candidate who can—and will—prevail under favorable circumstances. Every realigning presidential winner won re-election to a second term—which, in 2012, meant that Mitt Romney was doomed. Here, in 2016, Donald Trump is showing us he is not serious. So, the Republicans have to have a candidate who is appealing under the right circumstances—plus, given realignments also bring to reality a change in electorate needs and attitudes, Team Red will have to have adapted by the time they come up with their next Eisenhower.