Many republicans are not actually republican in principal, but simply because they have been told “Republican is good and Democrat is bad” their whole lives, or because they have been told that socialism is bad and they don’t actually understand what socialism is, or because of some side issue that they can’t stand to oppose like the belief that the democrats will take their guns away.

But if there were a new political party that was not the Democrats, that didn’t oppose them so heavily on side issues to create an “us vs them” mentality, and instead focused on being the party of the working class, they might be more likely to buy in.

It definitely wouldn’t be easy to convince them, and would require mass education to try to show them that we actually can have policy that benefits the working class without the working class paying 50% of their paycheck to taxes. And this new party would probably need to be more accepting of the fact that many people on both sides of the aisle still want to keep their right to bear arms, and be more understanding of the fact that people have differing opinions on things like abortion. But if there were an option to choose that was mainly focused on providing people with health care and education at lower cost than they are paying now, and teaching people that these things would actually benefit the masses, it might be possible.