Andrew Yang starts "centrist" third party with a bunch of former Republican office holders

[Fiendish Thingy]

It says there are Democrats too, but doesn’t name any.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-former-republicans-democrats-form-new-third-us-political-party-2022-07-27/

Fuck That Guy.

[ColinC]

1. ....who?

[AntivaxHunters]

12. Please don't erase POC, thank you

I get you don't like him, I don't either, but please let's not erase POC.
It's incredibly offensive to those of us who aren't white.
Thank you.

[ColinC]

15. I too am not white

In fact I am asian. And as an Asian person, I can promise you I have seen little representation of the needs of Asians -and those in our community by him. Calling out his irrelevance is not erasing people of color. In fact it is empowering us to find better representatives.

[obamanut2012]

18. lol

Wut?

So, we can't criticize or mock Yang because he is Asian-American?

[William769]

19. Your post is offensive.

Only Democrats are supported here (hint, hint).

[Gore1FL]

24. This has nothing to do with race and everything to do with political clout.

Wang is a political nobody. This isn't because he is an ethnic minority. It's because his total political experience is his assumptions that he has political experience.

[BannonsLiver]

28. Oh FFS

Nobody’s erasing anything. Yang is a piece of shit, and a con artist trying to do his bit to make Trump or DeSantis president in 2024 and we got people worried about others being mean to him.

As far as I’m concerned Andrew Yang can ESAD.

[kcr]

32. Uh huh. Sure n/t

[Raven123]

2. As parents know, naming the baby is easier than raising it

Announcing a new party without articulating policies or proposals makes no sense.

[karynnj]

38. Especially when they seem proud they have no policies other than not being D or R

This sounds a weaker "movement" than no labels was a little over a decade ago. (I had to think really hard and use Google to the best of my ability to even get their name as I had forgotten it.) They also at least had the idea of continuing to run in their party, but being part of a bipartisan caucus.

Consider that if Yang and Whitman are the best they can do for high profile leaders, this is going nowhere. Not to mention, what they really want seems to be the Republican party circa 1979 ... or in some cases the Reagan/Bush years. Yang's involvement suggests made a libertarian element too. If Yang is all they have as a Democrat, this is NOT in any ways a Democratic party.

[CrispyQ]

3. Bernie Sanders nailed it back in 2015 when he said that there are only two ways to the White House

and one is through the Democratic Party and the other is through the Republican Party. That's true of most Congressional and State seats as well. No other parties have the infrastructure these two have.

[JI7]

5. Because nobody is interested in starting a real third party which would take time

It would mean focusing on lower level elections first and building up.

And then maybe they can be competitive sometime in the future .

But the ones that bring up third party usually do so with Presidential election in mind . So of course no third party will be competitive in that situation .

[Demsrule86]

8. I want no third paties...I look around at Europe...and it doesn't work...almost 20 year that Tories

have been winning PM in UK and we had Brexit. Third Parties suck.

[JI7]

10. I agree . People often bring up third parties in other countries but with the way the system works

it's not much better.

The countries where things are better and more liberal laws are passed is because the population is more liberal so most support those candidates and laws.

this is not true in the US .

[Demsrule86]

41. That is it...and in some countries...people are liberal but the vote is split between

multiple parties so it leads to minority rule...which is often on the conservative side.

[GoneOffShore]

37. Excuse me? I moved to France, and third parties have clout. Don't discount them.

That being said, Americans are devoted to two party politics.

[Demsrule86]

39. What is happening with Macron? You are in grave danger of electing one of the right wing nutters.

[Gore1FL]

25. Third parties are mathematically excluded as a fallout of our system.

If that were not the case, I still prefer the two-party system as the voter knows the coalition they are voting for when they vote, not after the election.

[JohnSJ]

4. It was pretty clear back then, and no doubt now, that Yang was never a Democrat

[CentralMass]

6. I can't see it being a good thing.

[JI7]

7. What's funny is those who supported him for President were the "i'm so progressive" types

that would attack democrats for not being "progressive" enough .

[betsuni]

43. Democrats are denied the magic word "progressive" -- the club house sign says NO ESTABLISHMENT

ALLOWED. Magic words don't need real definitions. Now it's going to be populist progressive conservative centrists? This is getting complicated.

Like Tulsi Gabbard was supposed to be so progressive and nobody really could say why except for something about not liking American empires. Russian empire okay, though.

[JHB]

9. It's a party only a newspaper columnist or Beltway pundit could love

When you get down to it, it's entire premise is "not a dime's worth of difference" between the Democrats and the Raving Monster Loony Party.

[bluesbassman]

11. Well we've had the Bull Moose party now we get the Bullshit party.

And Andrew Yang is no Teddy Roosevelt.

[Diamond_Dog]

13. Oh, brother.

Yang, a techie who loves the spotlight -- a bunch of former Reaganites -- and a few disgruntled centrist Dems. Excuse me if I don’t get excited over this.

[Walleye]

16. C'mon, guys. Just vote for Democrats it won't hurt you just this once

[Murphyb849]

17. GOP Lite. Any REAL Democrat will not support him.

Just another sore loser.

[MuseRider]

20. Maybe with all those Republicans

in it there will be enough disappointed Magats go there. There have to be at least some that are angry and not wanting to go with tfg or any MAGA candidate but cannot vote for Biden or someone else. It might end up helping us?

Just a stray thought. I do not think that is what he is thinking but perhaps it just might help.

[Victor_c3]

29. That's kind of my thought

With all the former republicans and no known democrats and no stated party platform, it looks like a party that could draw mostly from more moderate republicans.

I’m not going to get worked up about it just yet.

[geardaddy]

21. You're right!

It's interesting that the article only mentions support from former members of Repug admins. Not a single word about Democrats.

And yes, Fuck That Guy.

[FSogol]

22. From the article: "The party, which is centrist, has no specific policies yet."

A proposed personality cult around clueless tech-bro Andrew Yang! We're going to do lots of stuff about things!

[Handler]

23. Just another bored billionaire looking for some entertainment. I've had my fill of those types .

[newdayneeded]

26. I say go for it

It has majority of right wingers in the forming committee. I can only see a repub light type of party, that'll only drain votes from the repub party and their candidates.

That gives us a nice edge come election time.

[H2O Man]

27. Recommended.

I had heard something about this. I think that Andrew will be about as successful as a kid who didn't make his high school basketball team, and decides to make his own team. I wasn't impressed with him before, and am far less so now.

[Midnight Writer]

30. They can name their party The Neocons + Andrew

[Sky Jewels]

31. Yeah, good luck with that, Andrew.

[Deep State Witch]

34. I wondered how long it would take

For someone to break off from the GOPers and start a moderate third party. I didn't think it would be Yang, though.

[we can do it]

35. Fucking fake little dick.

[chowder66]

36. Those "Democrats" are likely the same ones that show up in the polls as being for Republican

policies.

These "Democrats" probably haven't bothered to change their affiliation to Republican or Independent since they originally registered.

[LiberalFighter]

40. He is the problem.