I  think it depends upon what you mean by "long." Artappraiser doing business as a fortune teller without a license thinks: they are part of a worldwide phenomenon starting early in this century and we are in the middle of it now, so we have like 10 or 15 years to go. The effects of globalization and incredibly rapid change make this period as stressful and revolutionary as like, circa 1848 after the industrial revolution. Conservatives are naturally less able to handle all the change, are going to flip out and try to drag back to the tribal past, they are being dragged kicking and screaming into the present but they don't like it.  But their kids can handle it, they grew up with it. The millenial generation is going to come up with an entire new paradigm of political parties.( Ain't just whistlin' dixie on that, it's a sure thing with some issues like race and heritage, the census questions won't even make sense anymore to a lot of them.)

I'll probably be dead. It's no fun dealing with all this change everywhere at the end of life, so I feel their pain but still don't agree with their reaction.

good point, moat. knowing the narratives that resound with his fans, that may be his main talent? certainly many of his minions don't have the knack of getting his "message", where they end up contradicting it and then having to walk back? what we see and professional minions see as non-sequiter blurts, he and his fans see as a complete narrative?