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There's also the matter that there's an entire quadrant of the political map that appears to be unsupported by either party. https://www.voterstudygroup.org/as

• m3047 3y ago
  The "magic quadrant" chart is what I was alluding to in my top post, although none of those references is the paper which first brought it to my attention.
• tivert 3y ago
  > There's also the matter that there's an entire quadrant of the political map that appears to be unsupported by either party. Are you referring to "the underrepresented cohort in American politics is the opposite of libertarians: people with right-wing social views who support big government on the economy," in your second link? I think you are, but I think there's also a chance you're referring to libertarians, which are also poorly served by the parties, because, as the article points out, voters with such views "are functionally nonexistent."
  • Apocryphon 3y ago
    I am talking about the anti-libertarians (populists, statists, communitarians, etc.), correct.
• GloomyBoots 3y ago
  Hey, that’s my quadrant. This article is good but I’d go further than just trying to add nuance to arbitrarily binary stances. The distinction between “pro-choice” and “pro-life” among normal people that I interact with is certainly going to be different in aggregate, but there’s a very blurry frontier and you can easily find “pro-lifers” who are more tolerant of abortion than their “pro-choice” neighbors.
  • Apocryphon 3y ago
    There’s the American Solidarity Party, which is sort of a niche take on the concept (since they’re based on Catholic Social Teaching, they’re liberal on matters of immigration and race), but curiously they’re like the only attempt at the quadrant after decades of the Libertarian Party being the biggest third party, alongside the Greens and countless further left, further right, centrist, single issue, and smaller libertarianish third parties.