Guessing she is probably right on the various "buckets" of Trump voters that seem at odds with each other except for their disdain of Progressives.
Guessing she is probably right that no one is thinking "I should have voted for Harris instead."
Thinking none of these people are buying what Pritzker was selling in NH or Vermont or wherever he was preaching to the choir.
If there was ever a time for a 3rd party, it's now. As in - right now. Not 2 years from now and Mark Cuban or Michael Bloomberg or some other quasi-Independent says "I'm running for President". Right now. Finding a slate of 34 Senate Candidates and 435 Congressional Candidates, and as many statewide and even local races to jump into.
And it can't be some sort of shit-toast "I'm a moderate" bullshit. The GOP is basically nuts, because they have put their thumbs up into the air on so many single issues (abortion, guns, taxes, ZOMG NO MEXICANS) where many of their voters are all in on one of them, and then they get tribal, so they just blindly accept the other position of their other single issue voter categories, to the point where Trump could get up and say "We are banning Goat Cheese" and every Republican would be on board because that's what the coach said. And they get fervent about every issue, so you have the Scott Jennings and Mn's and Custards of the world justifying the most bizarro shit dear leader does because he's da coach.
Then the Democrats end up cobbling together by proxy anyone who is the opposite on abortion or guns or ZOMG NO MEXICANS, and they end up being tribal. But not as tribal, because those folks weren't recruited for those stances, they just fell into the Democratic party because they didn't like some position of the Republicans. But that doesn't hold a coalition, Harris et all spent a TON of energy on abortion but someone who wanted gun control didn't give a shit about abortion and so they think meh what are you doing for me?
A successful third party might be best to take NO position on abortion or guns as a party. There really isn't a moderate position on those issues. Stake out the important issues - the economy, a very clear position on how we invest in infrastructure, education, how we handle trade and why in order to get the best net economic result for the country writ large. A solid position on immigration - invest in stopping the random border crossings and then lower the attempts by making a very clean streamlined methodology of bringing in guests workers on visas that make the guest worker feel welcomed as long as they adhere to protocol, and making employers adhere to checking those visas, with strict penalties for each, given that we have made it simple and clean for workers to come here and employers to hire them. Put limitations in fields where jobs aren't begging for workers. Lessen limitations on highly skiled high value add employees (H1-B) and fast track them to green card and citizenship, making the clear argument that while we need field workers to support existing businesses, we need high skilled people to start new businesses and create more high value jobs here. Invest heavily in education and showcase how educated people create more jobs, by starting companies and just by flat out making more money and spending it on homes, travel etc.. that brings jobs to the workforce as a whole. And by making more money, they pay more taxes to repay the investment we made in them. Take a hard look at defense as a whole and have a stated goal to reduce the defense budget by optimizing and modernizing our forces. If Ukraine can hold off the Russians with a cobbled together force, we can blow people away with far less money than we fritter away right now.
Then throw up your hands and say we will appoint judges we think follow the constitution, not that will try to bend the constitution to match their preferred policy. On non bread and butter issues like abortion, LGBTQ, guns - we take no position and every member of our party is encouraged to state their positions and work on those issues in a multi-partisan fashion, in a country that is functional because we fixed the economy, immigration, and defense spending.
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