This actually wouldn't be unprecedented. Just look at 1920 and 1924. GOP dominance was so extreme by that point that the Dems only got 34.1% and 28.8% respectively in those elections.
It will require the GOP change drastically, just as the Democrats did with FDR, for them to win again if and when it reaches that point.
I don't see our current state of polarization lasting forever, nor do I see Millennials/younger becoming diehard conservatives. So something's gotta give, and it will probably force the GOP to either adapt or die and be replaced by a new party. That also wouldn't be unprecedented -- the GOP itself was formed out of the ashes of the Whigs, which was formed out of the ashes of the Federalists. Only the Democratic Party has endured in one form or another since (almost) the founding of the nation.
Nope nope nope. You can’t say that one party reforms out of others, and that qualifies as “dying,” but the Holy Democratic Party has always existed “in one form or another.” What’s more, this reductionist idea that we’ve always had the dichotomy of today just makes you sound completely stupid.
