This much is certain: America's political parties are in transition. What is uncertain is what they are evolving into, and whether the changes now underway are provisional or permanent.
Here is an oversimplification: The Republicans are becoming a Donald Trump party, and the Democrats are becoming a Bernie Sanders party. There are plenty of reasons to dispute that, and I might agree with most if not all of them. But it is a generalization, and it surely is what each of the parties says about the other party.
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