If/when depolarization happens, what will it look like?

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The intense polarization is a result of a lack of democracy in our governing systems.  Minority rule is the order of the day, and until that changes there are few incentives to appeal to the moderate middle of the electorate.  To depolarize our politics, we need to do the following:

1.  End the Electoral College (NPVIC would do the job)
2.  Eliminate the Senate's legislative filibuster
3.  Add more states so that actual people have more representation and empty land has less
4.  End partisan gerrymandering of Congressional districts
5.  Normalize partisan changes to the size and constitution of the federal judiciary
6.  Normalize executive and legislative push-back to judicial review

Basically, we need to dis-incentivize extremism by creating fair competition among political actors.  If we pump more democracy into our system, there'll be more room for compromise and moderation.

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I’ve seen this chart before, but why don’t you see someone with Rick Santorum’s social views and Bernie’s economics in real life or run for office? Fiscally left/socially right may be the future winning ticket. Populist parties in Europe are trending this way already.

Wasn't that Trump's 2016 campaign?  He ran promising to protect Medicare/Medicaid, replace Obamacare with something better, institute protectionist tariffs, invest massively in infrastructure, etc.  He hasn't governed that way, but he did run as a fiscally left/socially right candidate.