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Where does all this lead beyond the next election cycle or two? Nobody knows, but the best place to look for answers is within the Millennial Generation, the nation’s rising leaders and voters. Last month, in a long essay on Millennials (The Outsiders: How Can Millennials Change Washington If They Hate It?), I concluded that their revolutionary view of government and politics points toward two possible outcomes.

They might opt out of Washington, which leads us to some dark places. More likely, they will blow up Washington (“disruption” is the tech-inspired term they use), and build something better outside the current two-party dysfunction.

Millennials don’t fit neatly into either the Democratic or Republican parties. They are highly empowered, impatient and disgusted with politics today.

“This tension — two parties thinking they are in the trenches dueling it out, and a burgeoning generation who reject trench warfare altogether — is, for me, the key,” said Michelle Diggles, a senior policy adviser at the Democratic think-tank Third Way and an expert in demographics and generational politics. “Washington doesn’t get that change isn’t just a slogan. It’s about to become a reality.”

“Neither party,” she said, “gets what’s coming down the pike.”