Olde Europe
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Both parties started going to hell in a hand basket starting sometime in the early 60s.
Before, say, 1950, the Democratic party was the party of White, conservative resentment, in virtually uncontested control of the South.
That party is now the GOP, which morphed into the party of Trump not by accident of the man's appearance on the national scene, but because that was the trajectory they were traveling anyway.
There is plainly no market for the GOP of old, since that place is now occupied by the Democratic party, which leaves White resentment as the electoral tool to the GOP. For as long as there is a FPTP voting system, along with a thoroughly broken primary system, and an electoral system marred by outright, overt bribery by the plutocracy, that will not change. Were the GOP to regain their sanity, they would be direct competitors of the Democratic party on their turf, and the new party to emerge to cover the resentment market the GOP abandoned would be a new Party of Trump.