Reply #28: That's the scenario I've been imagining for about the past year. [View All]

As the Republicans move further to the lunatic right, they become more and more irrelevant. Whatever sane or moderate conservatives there are left will continue migrating to the Democratic Party, or at least they'll vote for Democratic candidates. But they won't stop being conservatives, and the Democratic Party has been moving further to the right for years. Even if 80% of the country are Democrats, the DLC/Blue Dog/ corporatist faction is likely to be the one in control.

Eventually the tension between the progressive wing and the corporatist wing will get to be too much, and there will be a schism within the Democratic Party, with the former Republican Party as an extreme-right third party. That's what I see as the most likely scenario anyway.