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We need a third party like four months ago.

Then tell one to do the back-breaking work over decades to start having members in Congress so they have a shot at winning a presidential election.

There isn’t some cheat code for a 3rd party candidate to become president.

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This is so often overlooked. A 3rd party could win EVERY SINGLE AVAILABLE SEAT in a presidential election year and they would still only control the executive - Congress and the judiciary would still have a supermajority of not-thems, and you couldn’t change that in one term, or even two. Not to mention every governor, state legislature, county board…

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You’re missing the magical thinking of people thinking Rachele Fruit can get another eighty million votes next election cycle and the democrats and republicans will hug and start voting her laws in.

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