MAGA is the right-wing equivalent of the DSA. I'm a free market capitalist . I cannot stand the DSAers. There are too many extremists in BOTH parties. Some of the MAGA-types, NOT ALL, but some of them would love to have fascism and, frankly, are racist. If, by chance the DSAers got control of the Democratic party and the extremists of the MAGA faction got control of the GOP, that would be awful. We would then badly need a VIABLE centrist 3rd party. But I'll give "credit" to both parties. I suspect they work together very well to make it nearly impossible for a VIABLE 3rd party to come into existence.
There are too many common sense people in both parties to let the extremists take over, in my view. Once Trump leaves the scene, I believe Trumpism will die. Even Trump says MAGA. will die once he steps off the stage. Vance, if he can shake off the stench of Trumpism could emerge. Rubio, DeSantis, Cruz, Huckabee Sanders, Haley, they all could emerge. I'm thinking that Vance is going to have a hard time separating his time with Trump. So one of the others will come out on top. If Vance comes out on top, you are handing the keys to the White House to the Democrats. On the Democratic side, it will not be a DSA-type., not if the Democrats want to win the White House. I see Beshear, Shapiro, Emanual, Ossoff, or Landreu emerging, all moderate left.
One of the things I forgot to mention that hurt the GOP in the midterms was Trump's grift (which may explain why the public polls has him underwater on crime) The Trump family is making Hunter Biden look like a pauper. One of the Trump children (I think it was Don Jr) reportedly said that they want to be the richest family in the world by the time Don Srs term ends. I'm sure that Putin is saying "hold my beer". The defense related contracts that both Don Jr and Eric's financial interests got is , well, very suspicious. Trump Sr. making $2.2 BILLION in his first year back, I don't think sits well with the public. One of my jobs in my career was regulating the selling of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, etc in the state. Trump's stock investing , to me, sure does smell like insider trading. Him wanting to charge $100,000 to give Wall Streeters inside peek into his Truth Social posts before the general public sees them, that would be jail time for anyone else. Stock trading by elected officials needs to be banned. BOTH parties are at fault (yes, I'm talking to you too Nancy). It's outrageous.