A life-long Republican told me today that for the first time in his life he's going to vote straight Democratic.
I've seen a number of other Republicans or former Republicans say they're going to vote Democratic, too.
They are not necessarily joining the Democrats. They are people without a party, longing for the Republican Party of Ford, Reagan, and Bush, Sr. I see no way the Republican Party wins them back without losing the Trump crowd.
American politics is increasingly a game between two parties commanding the support of smaller numbers of people, but without serious potential for a third party because of the structure of our electoral system and because the disenchanted from the two parties are not alike.
I'm increasingly less certain that there will be a realignment, but perhaps just a radical dealignment that leaves us with increasingly unstable politics as people flock to charismatic leaders, one of whom may ultimately dissolve Congress, jail opposition leaders, and run sham elections, to the joy of his followers.