Democracies around the world are under strain from disinformation and misinformation, economic inequality, and destabilizing populist parties/politicians. The Economist Intelligence Unit’s yearly survey of the health of democracies worldwide in 2020 found that democracies were, on average, at their lowest point since they began the project in 2006. Severe democratic backsliding has occurred in a number of former democracies including Poland, Hungary, Turkey, India, and Russia.

The great parliamentary realignment came at the perfect time for the 'moderates' of Congress. The ability to form a new party allowed them to escape the confines of their increasingly more ideologically extreme former parties. The Centrist party hopes to forge a path as the sensible choice for Americans who felt left out of the Republican and Democratic platforms. But they will have to deal with new realities.

Much of the narrative of the Democratic party has been of ideological division between moderates and progressives since the 2016 presidential election. So it comes as no surprise that a group of progressives decide to forge their own political course in hopes of shaping left-wing governance. What is surprising however, is the splitting off of progressives into two separate parties not one singular progressive coalition.

The fracturing of the Republican party didn't only take from it moderates and anti-Trump conservatives, it also opened the door for a more extreme distillation of Trump era Republicanism. The America First party or, as they would prefer to call it, movement is the Trump ethos unchained from the stodgy confines of the Grand Old Party. America First is driven more by populist inclinations than actual policy.

After the parliamentary realignment, a new party is formed as a home for "true" conservatives. With conservatism being replaced by Trumpism in the Republican party, some members choose to form a new center-right party, hewing to traditional conceptions of small-government and personal responsibility. A party of Reagan and Goldwater, this party finds a home for never-Trump Republicans who either used their platforms to support Democrats or just sat out the last four years.