Collapse of the Republican Party (Socialist America)

The Collapse of the Republican Party, was the process of internal disintegration of the Republican Party of the United States, which began in the early 2020's and ended in 2042 when the party itself officially ceased to exist.

Background
Numerous factors played a role in the collapse of the Republican Party, some subtler than others. The most obvious factor in the collapse was the Republican Party's reliance on white voters without college degrees. This demographic made up 65% of the electorate in 1980 but had shrunk to 42% in 2018, as America became educated and more diverse.

Another factor in the collapse of the Republican Party was it's reliance on older voters (Boomers in particular) and difficulty winning over younger voters (especially millennials and zoomers). The Republican party's commitment to shrinking the welfare state was complicated by the fact that their core voters were the welfare state's primary beneficiaries. This conflict between the Republican party's commitment to ever-lower taxes and reliance on ever-older voters was easy to manage when there was a bipartisan consensus that "entitlements should be trimmed" but by the late 2010''s that was no longer the case.

In 2018 Democrats turned the mid-term election into a referendum on the GOP's plans for repealing the ACA and that November, Seniors over 65 split their votes almost evenly between the two parties. This trade-off of younger voters for older voters was unsustainable in the long-run anyway because in the long-run the Boomers would be dead.

For decades the weaknesses in the Republican party were counterbalanced by equally dire weaknesses in the Democratic Party. The Republican Party also had a number of structural advantages such as the electoral college and gerrymandered districts which enabled them to remain viable even as demographics shifted against them.

In 2016 many pundits and commentators predicted a "GOP Civil War" would happen after Trump lost the election but these fears were put on hold after Trump's surprise victory.

History

 * 2024 was a watershed year, the first election in American history where white Christians didn't constitute a majority of voters.
 * 2024 was a watershed year, the first election in American history where white Christians didn't constitute a majority of voters.