Reports are that a rag-tag bunch of Never Trumpers, disaffected Republicans, and clueless Democrats are forming a third party. Never mind that this will only make it easier for MAGA Republicans to win elections…
If not after Bush v. Gore 2000, surely you would’ve thought these penny-wise, pound-foolish third-party idiots would have wised up after Trump v. Clinton 2016. Yet here they go again.
Indeed, nothing betrays their utter lack of political awareness quite like calling their party “Forward.” Not least because nothing could be more backward for American democracy than the political mischief they’re embarked upon.
Past is prologue
To be clear, founder Andrew Yang is just (mis)leading these folks down a proverbial, well-trodden primrose path.
Never mind that his misguided mission, which can only be to accomplish what John Anderson, Ralph Nader, Ross Perot, and even Donald Trump himself failed to. That, of course, is to balkanize the two main political parties to make elections in America look like the bizarre bazaar events they’ve become in places like Italy and Israel…
But, like them, Yang is just going to end up siphoning off enough votes to be a spoiler but not a winner in any race where his party fields a candidate.
For example, at the presidential level, Republicans are convinced that, but for Ross Perot’s Reform Party candidacy, Bill Clinton would never have beaten George H. W. Bush in 1992; while Democrats are convinced that, but for Ralph Nader’s Green Party candidacy, George W. Bush would never have beaten Al Gore in 2000.
Yang’s vanity project
This is why it is as foolhardy as it is ironic that Yang’s Forward is giving Trump’s MAGA just what it needs to make America over in its dystopian image…
Talk about the Einsteinian definition of insanity. Frankly this reeks of resentful, vengeful and ultimately spiteful politics.
After all, Yang’s record of leadership is so backward, he couldn’t even form enough alliances and coalitions to get elected mayor of New York. Not to mention his abysmal failure as a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate…
Vote like your life depends on it
Meanwhile, Democrats are running a political ad that crystallizes the threat MAGA Republicans pose to American democracy. It ends with a clarion call for sensible Republicans and Independents to help defeat them by voting for Democrats up and down the ballot!
All American voters would do well to heed this call.