What's in a Name?

 I am familiar with the "A-A-B" format, but I consider that only one form of the blues.  I know that a schoolteacher of musicology would agree, indeed insist, that the definitions of musical genres listed on Wikipedia are the only correct definitions.  Nevertheless, the nomenclature in common usage suggests differently.  For instance, the "classical" music of the 19th Century is more properly called "romantic", with the term "classical" more properly applying exclusively to music of the 18th Century.  Before that, there was something called "baroque".  I am not making this up!  If you tell most people, however, that you like "romantic" music, they will likely think that you mean sappy love songs.  Back in the 60s, we used to argue long and hard about what constitutes true folk music, a practice that came to be derisively called "the folkier than thou" attitude.  The contemporary folk group Peter, Paul, and Mary had little use for it, as the following song implies.

PETER, PAUL & MARY ~ Blue ~ - YouTube

I agree that the Republican Party under the leadership of Donald Trump has gone to hell in a hand basket, and I'm still not convinced that was not his original intent.  Both major parties have assimilated their extremist factions in the last few decades, but the Democrats have been more successful in keeping theirs under control.  Of course, nothing lasts forever, so what's going to happen next?  Will the Republicans recede into the background, yielding their second-place position to somebody like the Libertarians?  Unlikely, but not impossible.  Will the Democrats eventually spin off their extremist faction, thus restoring the two-party system that Americans seem to prefer, after the Republicans have crashed and burned?  We'll just have to wait and see, providing we live long enough.