Neither party will attract much new blood

I think all the new peeps running across the country right now on the Dem ticket against Trumpism is as good as it's going to get! Even that is a reaction to personality politics rather than an interest in party. With social media, it's going to be personality/celeb/viral politics from now on as the older generation dies off, like it or not.

All the maneuvering towards center or right is due to the fact of still very much having to deal with the older generations of flyover country. But I think as they die off, the country will move away from big tent into micro-targeting, together with the unfortunate fanboy and fangirl savior stuff, and single issue motivators like the Parkland thing.

I was struck by this I read last night from an outlier transgender Trump supporter from an article on her small rare cohorts @ Daily Beast, like: canary in coal mine, and also: why he's not losing approval rating:

Rogers has admired Trump ever since she read The Art of the Deal when it came out in 1987. In the period after she embraced her trans identity in 2013, the unapologetic figure of Trump was an inspiration for Rogers at a time when her family members refused to recognize who she was or call her by her new name.

“Trump’s personality really has a lot in common with a transgender personality,” she said, reminiscing about the time when she first wore makeup in public and chose a bright blue eyeshadow. “A lot of us want to shock the hell out of people. Trump doesn’t try to blend in. I can look at him and I can tell who he is. He’s a wild child. I love that.”

Future is not red vs. blue, rather more like Facebook rainbow.tribes, iconoclastia, don't you dare label me, I'm nobody's pawn, etc...Trump just catalyzed this. He's different in that way from populists in other countries. He happens to share their memes but that's just a sideshow to what he's actually done. Obamamania was the the first iteration, their own organization apart from the party, their own mail list, etc. I would argue that even the eventual disappointment with Obama by the passionate yud was precisely because he started to be looking like just another Dem.