Donald Trump — meet Kyrsten Sinema. Sen. Sinema (I-Ariz.) recently departed the Democratic Party to become an independent. If Trump follows her lead and runs for president as an independent he inst…
From the December 19, 2022 opinion piece:
What will “Double Haters” do if Trump is an official third-party candidate? They are sure to hear Trump express their views by damning all politicians as corrupt, especially establishment Republicans in the House and Senate.
If Trump runs as an independent in 2024, he will principally take votes from Republicans.
But he might also pick off some “Double Haters” who respond to anti-establishment rhetoric.
The Forward Party is betting that a movement defined by what it is against is far more important than what it stands for.
Mary Anna Mancuso was the national press secretary for the Forward Party. From her August 4, 2023 account:
The Forward Party is making a dangerous miscalculation. It is betting that what a party opposes is more important that what it stands for. Motivated by a tech industry ethos that considers disruption for disruption’s sake a virtue, Forward is following a path blazed by some of startup culture’s biggest debacles — Theranos and WeWork.
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I found an organization convinced it could maintain and grow its disparate coalition by not taking any positions at all. Its very existence was premised on the idea that, in the future, political parties will succeed by not having a philosophy of government, a shared vision or even a platform to unite behind.
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Every all-staff meeting kicked off with an underscoring of maxims and constant reminders we were building a “viable, durable, credible” new party. Despite the steady drumbeat of this mantra, there wasn’t much internal understanding of what it meant, let alone a strategy of how we were going to accomplish it.
The fact that two thirds of our electorate are frustrated with our electoral system does not mean that willing a third party into being will make it stick.
His project isn't even a year and a half old and already he's exhibiting top down tendencies. Oh, and his support for the Ukrainian forces shows that he's no different from the duopoly parties. 👎🏾