People's Convention 2020

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sc94597 said:

vivster said:

Before that additional left leaning parties will only hurt their own cause.

The assumption being that there is already a left-leaning party in the first place?

The role of minor parties in American politics has either been: 

1. Supplant a dying party, see Whigs -> Republicans. 

2. Shift a major party to the minor party's position, see populists/progressives/farmer-labor/social labor, etc effect on the Democratic and Republican parties. 

Considering that the Democratic Party has chosen to be a center-right wing party, it makes sense for a center-left/left-wing party to run in 2022 and 2024.  

I think the Republican party will go the way of the Whigs if they continue on the course they're on.

While it was an ongoing movement since at least Reagan, Trump really pulled the party so far to the authoritarian right that more and more establishment republicans are revolted about this movement and revolting against their party to some degree, just see The Lincoln Project or Republicans Against Trump for instance. If the core continues that way, I could see a wave of republicans changing their party affiliation to either democratic or libertarian and the GOP becoming a minor party as a result.

This would also pull the democratic party somewhat to the right, leaving amply space for a new party to the left of the democrats.