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No... That's something different.The "Lemming" party?
Right now Republican candidates seem to benefit from traditional and habitual Republican voters as well as the new MAGA voters (many of whom are both). Neither is a given in the future.Traditionally, the US has been a two party system. With a few exceptions of third parties which were never successful. Splitting either of the two existing major parties will cause the remaining unsplit party to win. The system is set up for winner-take-all. The two splits of a major party will never win.
In most parliamentary systems, deals can be brokered where lesser political parties are able to share power. To some extent. That doesn't work in our two party system. Here, tradition has become institutionalized.
In some places in the US, we have a nominal two party system. That is, one of the parties becomes so dominant that its opposition has become token.
When Donald Trump pulled off a hostile takeover of the GOP, some people thought the future of the party was doomed. That idea may have been premature, based on the recent elections. Everyone was set up to expect massive losses in the House and figured on losing the Senate. In the House, the GOP actually narrowed the gap; we have yet to see the results of the GA elections, so control of the Senate is still up in the air. But there was no massive loss by the GOP in the Senate in any case. As I see it, the power struggle between the two parties these days is a matter of demographics.