I’m not a fortuneteller, but I like to speculate.
Of course I could be wrong, but for better or worse, I think conservatism and libertarianism are on their way out, at least for Normerica, Western Europe and the near future.
DJT, Bolsonaro and so on could be the last hoorah, but 1st, a little history:
While there were lots of little, premodern republics in Renaissance Italy and elsewhere in Europe, the 1st modern constitutional monarchy was born in the UK in 1688 and the 1st modern republic in the US in 1776.
The political paradigm back then was conservatarianism (republicans) versus classical liberalism (democrats).
Conservatarianism was a marriage between conservatism and classical liberalism or libertarianism.
Like classical liberals, conservatarians believed in constitutional democracy as opposed to absolute monarchy, in free speech, the right to bear arms, due process, equality before the law, the rule of law…
Fiscally, both believed in capitalism, as opposed to feudalism.
However, conservatarians were national capitalists, for protectionism as well as state banking and infrastructure, whereas classical liberals were global capitalists, for free trade.
Socially is where they differed most.
Conservatarians imposed traditional values like don’t drink, do drugs, prostitute yourself and so on, classical liberals didn’t impose traditional values.
This was the dominant political paradigm in the Anglosphere in the 19th and early 20th century.
Then classical liberalism evolved into modern liberalism.
Modern liberalism is basically a compromise between classical liberalism and the more radical social democrats and democratic socialists (progressives).
1st, modern liberals just embraced some aspects of progressive economics in the 30s, but increasingly since the 60s they began embracing some aspects of progressive environomics and socionomics too.
So for the last several decades, we’ve been in this conservatarian versus modern liberal paradigm.
Conservatarians had a lot in common with classical liberals.
They had quite a bit in common with modern liberals too, especially before the 60s, but that was then.
We’re entering a new era in the 2020s, where liberals embrace most aspects of the progressive agenda.
Conservatarians are backlashing, and I believe we’ll see a final showdown between them before the end of the century, that is if conservatarians don’t become mostly irrelevant, altho they’ll almost certainly continue to do well in certain regions like the South, the prairies and so on.
Both sides are incredibly corrupt, and we’ll bring out the best in both by supporting competent 3rd party/grassroots/independent/populist candidates.
If I’m right, and there’s a final showdown between them, I believe progressives will win, because we just keep on modernizing, which isn’t necessarily a good thing, and because democracy has a life span and conservatarians are loyal to it and the constitution, progressives aren’t, increasingly for them right makes might or vice versa.
Athenian democracy lasted about 300 years and the Roman republic about 500.
I don’t see our constitutional monarchy lasting beyond 2088 and your republic beyond 2076.
The woke dictatorships probably won’t last more than a century or 2 before collapsing into a new dark age.