The best solution to the two parties excluding the left isn’t a third party, it’s for the left to register as Republicans and conduct a hostile takeover of the GOP in the primaries.
This can easily succeed in blue states/cities to start out.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. The Democrats are very good at controlling the outcomes of their primaries, but the Republicans don’t seem as capable. They threw everything they had at stopping Trump in 2016, came up short, and then allowed him to completely restructure the party. I wonder if it might be easier for a progressive to run in an open Republican primary in a district the broader GOP isn’t trying to compete in, then try and take out the Democrat in the general. It might be more effective than primarying Democrats directly.
The best solution to the two parties excluding the left isn’t a third party, it’s for the left to register as Republicans and conduct a hostile takeover of the GOP in the primaries.
This can easily succeed in blue states/cities to start out.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. The Democrats are very good at controlling the outcomes of their primaries, but the Republicans don’t seem as capable. They threw everything they had at stopping Trump in 2016, came up short, and then allowed him to completely restructure the party. I wonder if it might be easier for a progressive to run in an open Republican primary in a district the broader GOP isn’t trying to compete in, then try and take out the Democrat in the general. It might be more effective than primarying Democrats directly.
It’s weird that that doesn’t sound ludicrous