Time For a New Party

Now that Liz Cheney has been tossed out as House Republican conference chair in favor of Trump sycophant Elise Stefanik (below), anti-Trump Republicans are so ticked off that they've threatened to break away form the GOP and start a new party.

Before you laugh at the idea of a third party being formed, bear in mind that this wouldn't necessarily be a third party.  It could be that party that eventually replaces the Republicans, just as assuredly as the Republicans replaced the Whigs in the 1850s.  Part of the reason the Whig Party died was because the Whigs could not reconcile its industrial capitalist agenda with tolerating slavery, and the party was increasingly relying on outsiders - old soldiers who were war heroes - to run for President, as that was the only way they could win the White House.  Until it wasn't, when General Winfield Scott lost his presidential bid in 1852.  

Now, with noted outsider Trump taking over the GOP and encouraging the party to pursue an incoherent policy agenda, it makes sense for anti-Trump Republicans, conservative-leading independents, and any center-right Democrats who don't feel at home in their old party any more to form a new party to oppose the Democratic Party and propose center-right policies just like the Republicans once did.  And the Republicans can wither on the vine and die.

And I hope all of that happens before Kevin McCarthy becomes Speaker of the House.