THE POLITICAL BUNDLES ARE UNSUSTAINABLY LARGE.

That's been a regular theme here for the past few years.  "Where you risk a true majority voting for awful things (for arbitrary values of awful) mightn't that good governance be minimal governance?"

In the midst of speculating over whether the Democrats will survive this fall's election (don't read too much into that, dear reader) American Thinker columnist Mark C. Ross, after listing a number of recent failures of the self-styled progressives, recognizes the same phenomenon.

In today’s world, one of our two major parties has been infected by ultra-leftist ideologies. Guess which one. Is this disease terminal? Only time will tell, and this year’s election may well be a harbinger of the eventual outcome.

My own guess is that both parties are in for a change. First off, the Republicans have a RINO problem (I prefer to call them Banana Republicans). Should the GOP achieve an overwhelming victory this year, then “movement” conservatives and Tea Party stalwarts may get around to pushing out the RINOs… who may then join up with the more centrist Democrats. Meanwhile, the uber-leftist Democrats will join up with the Greens.

I don't know, that coalition of "more centrist Democrats" and establishmentarian Republicans sounds a lot like the so-called Common Sense Caucus in the House, but so far, they've not found it in their interest to put forth a Speaker from one of the major parties and a Majority Leader from the other to make that sort of parliamentary outcome reality.  That might be the restoration of a tendency toward the median voter, although with it comes the risk of people believing the tales of Good Governance as Passing Legislation.  Meanwhile the Trumpians and the libertarians are not allies, nor will the urban socialists who style themselves as progressives always be on good terms with the more upscale environmentalist types.