Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

esp. the far religious right. The male supremacists, the white supremacists, the homophobes.

They've been drawing the line at the most strongly held, most intractable beliefs of each side.

In each case, time is on the side of Democrats. It seems each succeeding generation is more willing to integrate with women, people of other races and religions, people of other orientations. Eventually, the Republicans will either move on social issues--which I believe they have been doing--or they will go down screaming about traditional marriage and vaginal ultrasounds.

The Supreme Court will also be a factor. The more it decides that people do or do not have reproductive choice, they do or do not have equal rights, the more one party or another can say, "I so agree with you, but it's out of my hands."