The Republican Party: Past, Present, Future

Many highly respected pundits say we are at a turning point where the Republican Party will be braking up into two parties.

It might be useful to look back at the origins of the GOP and wonder if now is the time for another breakup.

Maybe a breakup in both parties could be for the best?

Note:

The Republican Party, also commonly called the GOP (for "Grand Old Party"), is one of the world's oldest political parties still in existence, the second oldest existing political party in the United States after its great rival, the Democratic Party. It emerged in 1854 to combat the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which threatened to extend slavery into the territories, and to promote more vigorous modernization of the economy. The Party had almost no presence in the South, but by 1858 in the North it had enlisted former Whigs and former Free Soil Democrats to form majorities in nearly every Northern state.

"Maybe a breakup in both parties could be for the best?"

Is there a reason the Democrats would choose to break up their party? They stand to be the beneficiaries of a Republican breakup.

Artistic Symmetry demands a breakup of both parties...but I think it will be only a breakup of the righter wing Republicans. If the bulk of the American population regards their real interests and concerns would create a real left of centre party....lacking in American life for a century, but the ability to manipulate the populace by the rich and the wanna-be rich is so pervasive, I doubt that will occur. In this election cycle, it may well be that the Republicans will be soundly thrashed, and splinter for the next one...Barring a third party run for the general election, very hard to organize at this point...the mid-terms will be interesting...to us on-lookers.
Bernie would have provided a chance for real change but....

While i'm thinking of it, there is an eerie parallel between Trump, and the entire right wing of the Republican ethos, as opposed to what could be seen as a more centrist, less xenophobic stance for the GOP, is the growing contempt for the ability of standard politics and democracy to face the current set of challenges...read the beginning chapters of "The Coming of the Third Reich" by Richard j. Evans. I fear America, your Bundys are your future unless you get out the Centrist vote.

Although this is from an English perspective, the following article by playwright David Hare is an interesting view on how the neo-conservative project might be reaching the end of its current form (warning: it is quite long)

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/08/david-hare-why-the-tory-project-...

Here's a sample quite that rings very true:
"For a party that is meant to like people, and to believe in enabling them, the modern Conservative party, once inclusive, has had, to say the least, a funny way of showing it. From every government department we regularly expect sallies against the very people who toil in the sector that the minister is supposed to lead. If there were at this moment a Ministry of Fruit Picking, you can be damn sure that the only way an ambitious Tory minister could advance his career would be by launching a blistering attack on the feckless indolence and inefficiency of fruit pickers."

I have two theories about the coming death of the GOP. The first and most accepted is that Lee Atwater and his divisive "Southern Strategy" was the seed that is now coming to maturity. My other theory involves the resentment the GOP felt when Nixon turned out to be a crook and got caught. They did not blame Nixon and his cronies they blamed the Democrats. They claim the Democrats did exactly the same things, except there is no evidence of that, and that the Democrats took advantage of the situation in a power grab. They claim that even though Nixon was allowed to leave office and go home instead of prison and that his un-elected Republican vice president was then made president, served out his term and fought to keep the position by being elected to the office in 1976. He lost and they got more upset and Atwater came up with the strategy of capturing all the racists and bring them into the GOP with empty promises.