Based on data from the Democracy Fund’s VOTER survey, this party would be the best fit for about 14 percent of the electorate. Its potential leaders include Larry Hogan, Charlie Baker, Mitt Romney, John Kasich and Michael Bloomberg. It is the heir to the old moderate “Rockefeller Republican,” the East Coast wing of the G.O.P. The Growth and Opportunity Party is the socially moderate, pro-business wing of the Republican Party. Based on data from the Democracy Fund’s VOTER survey, this party would be the best fit for about 20 percent of the electorate. Its potential leaders include Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott and Mike Pompeo. It will find stronger support among the most politically engaged and affluent, especially men.

The Christian Conservative Party is focused centrally on issues of religious liberty and morality, with very limited government. Its potential leaders include Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton and Tucker Carlson. Its strongest support among lower-income conservatives comes from exurban America. It is economically populist and strongly anti-immigration. The Patriot Party is the party of Donald Trump’s 2016 primary campaign: the coalition of the small town, white working-class Americans who feel left behind by globalism and condescended to by cosmopolitanism. Until American politics nationalized in the 1980s and 1990s around divisive culture-war issues, they operated more independently within the two major political parties. These six parties reflect the underlying factions - and divides - within the Democratic and Republican parties.

They will find a home in either the New Liberal Party or the Growth and Opportunity Party. Many readers who consider themselves centrist might also think of themselves as socially liberal/fiscally moderate or socially moderate/fiscally conservative. That is because there are very few voters in the middle across all issues. ( The Pournelle axes for example sort by attitude towards the State and embrace of Reason.) Drutman has picked these criteria because:Įach party represents a different portion of the electorate, not only ideologically but also by economic class and political engagement. There are any number of criteria pairs that could be used to sort political leanings to give an idea of how they relate to each other.

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