[FooBarBizBazz]

Nice post and references. This is basically how I see it too. You could increase the symmetry a little by adding to the Democrats the ghost of an FDR/LBJ "New Dealer" faction, corresponding roughly to the displaced Eisenhower/Rockefeller faction of the Republicans. You'd have something like:

- Eisenhower Republicans : New Dealers

- Reagan/Gingrich "small government" Republicans : Clinton/Obama/Blair market liberals

- "moderate Trumpists" (if there can be such a thing) : "Progressives" (who, I will add, are somewhat less "left" than Wokeists)

They form a 3x2 matrix. Each column represents a side, and each row the spirit of an age.

I guess you could call the rows: "Institutions", "Markets", "Movements".

Then, breaking the symmetry, the "Progressives" are moderated a little by the ghost of FDR/LBJ, while the ghost of Eisenhower lives on in the Never Trumpers, who... weirdly, might ally with what "respectable" Neocons remain, and turn into some kind of "establishment" figures aligned as much with the center-left market liberals as with anyone. Sort of a "deep state" faction without a party.