The two major American political parties should really be viewed as coalitions of a number of single or few issue parties. It's an issue of semantics, but it al

The two major American political parties should really be viewed as coalitions of a number of single or few issue parties. It's an issue of semantics, but it also explains how our parties can swing so wildly over time on certain issues -- the composition of the coalition has simply changed. The minor parties are either in one of these two coalitions or are effectively out on their own. What Americans are really saying here is that neither coalition is really working for them and they're looking for some other new coalitions to form. It's particularly acute at the moment with the Republican party where the fractures are fairly clear and have been forming for the last few decades. However, the Democratic party also has fissures and it may explain why it's turned into such a gerontocracy as the old guard seek to keep the the coalition together. In either case, the minor parties of either major probably won't seek to break away unless they believe they can form a new coalition (major) party that will win at the polls. What I think many Americans would hope, if really pressed, would be a center-right party (by American thinking of left-right politics) that ejects the more extreme right wing concerns and pulls enough of the center-left to win while also filtering out more classic left-wing politics. Where that center-left comes from? I would wager mostly various highly religious, but not necessarily evangelical, groups made heavily of recent or second generation minority immigrant groups who tend to be more conservative in thinking but pushed to align with the Democratic party because of all the race hating nonsense in the Republican party. Some of these groups have been test migrating to the Republican party over the last generation simply because the Democratic party isn't coherent in its ability to absorb multiple competing ethical and moral frameworks, but I would bet that those groups are generally unhappy being in the same room as all the anti-<insert religious ethnic group> people who don't like them and are looking for better aligned identity. Like any great American political institution, such a party would continue to be decades behind the political thought in Europe, left of most of Asia without the long-term thinking, and be paradoxically highly inclusive of race and religion while intolerant of real social progress.