Time For A New US Political Party?

The US is becoming ever more divided politically .....

USA Politically Divided

 .... with the current two major parties both prone to being hijacked by and led by extremists of the left and the right, and assassinations and assassination attempts, now seemingly a real factor in political life.

With those same extremist forces pulling the Democrats ever more to the left, and dare I say it, towards socialism, while the Republicans have been driven by MAGA closer to the far right, and dare I whisper it, dabbling with authoritarianism. Its hard to see the current trajectories of the Republicans and Democrats changing soon, thus widening the gap between the two blocs evermore. 

However when this happens, there is a danger that the political centre, those centrist voters who prefer consensus politics, and who can see some attraction in both social justice and fairness, but who also don't agree with large state redistribution of funds and handouts, and expect people to earn their rewards, being left behind.

The assumption that these centrists will stay loyal to either party, as they become evermore extreme in their policies, is just wrong. Many right leaning Democrats are as appalled by the "progressives" policies in the party, such as the gender identity policies some Democrats want or have enacted, as most Republicans are, but equally many left leaning Republicans are put off by the current Republican administrations race to the right, on things such as the environment, or expanding the executive powers of the presidency at the expense of Congress, thus destabilising the constitutional separation of powers. 

CENTRE GROUND IN POLITICS 
VACATED IN USA?

In fact there is some evidence for example, that President Trump and his policies are actually losing, or lost support, from some of the non MAGA Republicans. For instance Trump could face immediate impeachment, if the Democrats win the House of Representatives in Congress in Novembers mid-terms (It'd fail in the Senate of course, unless in the unlikely event that the Democrats overturned the Republican Senate majority). This wouldn't be a surprise from Democrat voters who would unanimously impeach him. However what should concern Trump and the Republicans, is that a new survey with a large sample, from Strength in Numbers/Verasight, which found that 21% of Republicans would support an impeachment, with 72% opposed. Among independents, 50% back impeaching the president. 

So is there now in fact, now an opening developing for a new centrist political party in the USA? A party that takes something from the left of the Republican party and the right of the Democrats, to strike a common sense balance of policies, that perhaps reflects the consensus and compromise politics of the 1980's and earlier, before the rise of the extremist movements inside each party such as the Christian Coalition of America or the Tea Party which both presaged MAGA inside the Republican Party, or the Socialist Progressives inside the Democrat Party. 

Whether there is an appetite for such a political party in the USA, I can't say for sure, but I suspect that there must be some who would be relieved at the return to sanity in politics, that the arrival of such a party would represent. When you consider the probable options in November 2028 which currently looks to be California Gov. Gavin Newsom or former Vice President Kamala Harris, versus Vice President J D Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio, you can only see both parties continuing to follow their ever extremist trajectories (although Rubio might surprise if in office). 

It'll be interesting to see if such a new party ever emerges, as the split in the main stream politics continues to widen over the next few years, or even if the US gets torn apart by the gulf between the two blocs.