Actually In hindsight, it is enormously optimistic to assume the ‘conservative’ party existed in more than name only by the time 2024 comes around.
Americans will have to choose between a moderate conservative party and a radical right party in the 2024 elections.
Thanks to Duverger’s law and the moving of the Overton window rightward, we no longer have viable left-wing options. If we can get ranked-choice voting or similar, most of these problems with political parties will evaporate as viable alternatives emerge on both sides and elected officials are forced to work together and compromise.
2003: “If he keeps this up, he’ll drag the entire Republican Party down with him in 2004.”
Actually In hindsight, it is enormously optimistic to assume the ‘conservative’ party existed in more than name only by the time 2024 comes around.
Americans will have to choose between a moderate conservative party and a radical right party in the 2024 elections.
Thanks to Duverger’s law and the moving of the Overton window rightward, we no longer have viable left-wing options. If we can get ranked-choice voting or similar, most of these problems with political parties will evaporate as viable alternatives emerge on both sides and elected officials are forced to work together and compromise.