You’d have a much better point if Hillary didn’t proceed to lose against the man who went on to become the most inept President at time of writing.

What do you mean with him being controlled opposition?

Which is why he needs to weasel out of paying death benefits.

Trump’s ego is more important than anything.

Give Putin some credit. He’s doing this much more intelligently. He maintains a plausible pretense to not pay out death benefits while Trump just goes “No”.

Funnily enough, that is already failing.

Why do all of the posters making these “let’s start a third party” suggestion have accounts less than a month old?

(Admittably, I’ve only encountered 2 of you so far, but still, what are the odds?)

And whatever advantage is gained by not having a D next to your name (Mamdani certainly won despite having a D next to his name) would be lost by having to compete with both the Democrats and the Republicans.

A third party is not viable compared to coopting an existing party.

You bring up Zohran Mamdani. You do realize he won by first running in the democratic primary, instead of running third party? That they did do their worst to stop him, and he still succeeded rather decisively? You do realize, that if Mamdani had run third party instead, New York would have a republican Mayor now?

And despite all of this, you somehow belief that starting a third party is a viable option?

That’s wrong, you need to coopt the dems until they are a progressive party. Same as how MAGA turned the reps into an absolutely insane party.