re: Does anyone worry we're just flipping back and forth between D and R

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The further any party moves from the center, the harder they lose.

Most Americans are simple. Once you start doing stuff that is extreme on both sides of the fence is when the huge shifts occur.

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Exactly.

The US is a center-right country who wants centrism on the whole. There are urban pockets of legit Leftism and wide swaths of unpopulated geography with miniature pockets of right wing ideology. By and large, the country wants centrist policies, which is why you see these flips.

However, as the US keeps advancing, we will see left-creep and eventually will become center-left. That's just the price you pay for advancing a society (and providing a more educated population while attracting the best, most educated immigrants from around the world).

Trump was dead-center in most respects. He was very similar to Bill Clinton (who was once seen as a "Marxist threat" by the right wing extremists but who was really a very centrist politician). So in about 30 years, that's how far left we moved, where Bill Clinton incarnate was the GOP savior against "globalism".