What will the next party system look like?

[brucejoel99]

This is already starting to shape up but we don't know how it's all gonna work out in the end.

The post-Civil Rights era GOP used the covert Southern Strategy of appealing to racism by means of class & "culture," but once the neo-conservative wing of the party was thoroughly discredited by the combined fallout from Iraq & the Great Recession, the group that replaced them were much more populist from the beginning & - as it has played out - much more open about their bigotry too. That obviously constitutes a pretty major shift & the only reason we're not really talking about it as such yet is because we're still in the midst of it.

The Democrats are still trying to figure out what the new coalition looks like on our end (seemingly 'pragmatic progressivism') & on top of that, we seem poised to see a pretty seismic change in the demographics of places like GA & TX. On the flip side, former Democratic strongholds like PA are turning into swing states as the bloc that voted Dem in the past (often due to union membership, which is more-or-less now completely a thing of the past) ages out.