Transition to one-party-system

[Epaminondas]

No more than any other western country usually being dominated more by one side than the other.

Germany has been run by a single party for the past 15 years.

[Epaminondas]

Imagine how bad Democrats would be right now if Biden actually ran and won in 2016. By 1993, the Republicans were wiped out downballot.

Not exactly the same, since the House has been democratic for 40 years by 1992. Electors just hadn't been brainwashed by Fox News yet and trusted Democratic legislators reflexively over Republicans.

As for the Senate, a Biden win in 2016 would almost certainly have carried McGinty in Pennsylvania, and arguably Kander in Missouri.

So a 50-50 Senate, before a bloodbath in 2018 (perhaps 56-44) then probably the same result in 2020, maybe Perdue holds on: 54-46 GOP.

[Epaminondas]

No more than any other western country usually being dominated more by one side than the other.

Germany has been run by a single party for the past 15 years.

Exactly. But it still isn't a single party country. A social democrat was chancellor for the 7 years preceeding that and Social Democrats have been part of the CDU led government.

Are you claiming that the SPD still wields any federal power?
I've moved out of Germany, but that is certainly not what I heard from locals.

The SPD hasn't truly garnered more votes than the CDU since 1998, and since 2013 they have been running 10 points behind them.

If the GOP lost 3 presidential elections in a row at a 45-55 clip, would you be saying it's still a governing party?