It was over. With the decisive victory of the President and his Reform allies, the Democratic-Republican Duopoly was effectively over. Despite holding their ground in a few states, most of their supporters had abandoned them, and it would only get worse when the 28th was ratified...
The slow and strange death of Democratic and Republican America in the early 21st century was a curious phenomenon. At the turn of the century, the two party duopoly never seemed stronger. A mere decade later, the same two parties had basically ceased to exist .
When MMP and the independent office of Presidency went into force, both parties were reduced to only token support. Most of both parties’ bases defected to new parties formed in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
On the right, the new Conservative party took much of the former Republican party’s base, while others went to Reform and the minor party, the Libertarians.
On the left, Labor and the Progressives were the main two benefactors of the Democrats collapse, while the Green party also attracted support. Later on, Labor and the Progressives would merge to form the Social Democrats, which become the main standard bearer for leftism. in 21st century America.
Otherwise, other minor parties standing for issues such as Native American rights or for statehood for the territories would emerge from the wreck of the old two parties.
And as always, the Reform party would stand in the center. The legacy of Trump would ensure that Reform would stand for middle America, well into the 21st century.
Quite ironically, the Clinton-McCain Memorandum of 2004 would pave the way for one of the strangest mergers in modern American history. By the 2020s, the two parties were virtually extinct, which prompted their leaders make an audacious decision. In 2025, the Democrats and Republicans would vote to merge and create a new party occupying the moderate center of American politics.
The Democratic-Republicans were back after two hundred years, and today they remain one the last vestigal remnants of 20th century America.