More Popular Vote/Electoral Vote splits coming?

Fascinating stuff.

One takeaway on a quick scan of it. Given the current demographic profiles of the two parties, the Republican Party, at least as currently constituted, will be in no position to win a presidential election after 2036. Yay!

https://bipartisanpolicy.org/library/states-of-change-demographic-shifts-and-the-future-of-the-trump-coalition/

But in the interim, because of the interaction of demography with the distribution of the electoral votes, more Trump style victories ... in which the Republican EC winner loses the popular vote to a Democrat -- MAY well be in store for us. As the authors put it: “This report finds quite a few future scenarios could mimic the result of the 2016 election — a Democratic win in the popular vote with a Republican win in the electoral college.” BOO!

I suspect the Republicans know this already and that that is precisely why some of them have chosen to play so heavily to their base. Those factions see base polarization and mobilization as the key to at least their short term survival.
They may be right. But victory purchased that way, at least at the presidential level, would then mean that we will have the older, whiter, less populous regions of the country effectively lording it over the younger, more diverse, more populous regions of the country. And THAT will not be good at all from the perspective of democratic legitimacy. People of good will should really hope that this strategy does NOT succeed.

This piece in the Washington Post summarizes some fo this for those who don't want to wade through it all.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/more-popular-vote-electoral-college-splits-may-be-in-our-future/2018/04/14/0d961dce-3f1a-11e8-8d53-eba0ed2371cc_story.html?utm_term=.04fc8a32b9f8