Well, we have to do something about that. I don't like designing policy within the constraints of "Actually, we cannot have good policy".

The "no you cannot have good policy" party has almost 50% of the vote.

Yup, they do. So it's really important to try to bring some transitional policy about just barely can wedged through that will nonetheless have such a effect that the balance electorial power and/or policy positions of the parties will realign. (In the short term, it may be the former, in the long term in better be the latter.)

Tough cookie!

If you can't do that, well, then you better consider secession or something. I don't want to live out my old age in a "New America, Yukon" military junta rump state because some people sit down, blushing, seeing Rubicons on all sides in 2021.

(The sad irony of course being that crossing Rubicons made military Rubicons then, I know. But it was a lack of meaningful other reforms too. So find a Gracchi metaphor instead, I guess.)