It is hard to envision anything other than the current dual-party template configuring this country’s political landscape anytime in the foreseeable future. For all intents and purposes, the Democratic and Republican parties are here to stay. And save for the few nominal party members who on occasion stray from their presumed ideological bearings, each party is correspondingly beholden – admittedly in somewhat reductive yet not wholly inaccurate characterizations - to its respective ideology; namely the liberal (benignly dubbed “progressive”) and the conservative ideologies.
