Republicans and Democrats in Secret Talks to Create a Third Party

Yep. There's only one party in USA: the fascist party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

I'm sure kamalacaust will come out of the woodwork to stop this tho... \s

not left. not right. rigehft.

The USA is a one party state, except with typical American extravagance, they have two three of them

American politicians form third right-wing party.

But mom says we already have conservative party at home

Even if some unholy combo of the right and the slightly less right us what we wanted, this is literally just plotting for the spoiler effect

“The Republican Party, as many of us know it, no longer exists,” said one source, who asked not to be named. “We do not recognize ourselves anymore in Trump’s administration. There is a strong movement out there in the party to reclaim the values we were raised on and reclaim the middle ground.”

Translation: "Omg can you believe this leopard is eating my face? Now that I'm personally affected by my own stupidity I want to be friends with Democrats!"

The old school dems will team up with the majority of Rs and nothing will change. Anything to keep progressives from taking power.

A real simple fix would be ranked choice voting.

"Vote blue no matter who, but also we'll leave the party completely at the slightest hint you want to reduce income inequality and fix the broken social safety net."

Edit: Actually, good, fuck em. Why should the left need to start its own party. We're the Democrats now. Any Democratic official who leaves the party for this should be abandoned forever.

Ah, the Obstructionist Party.

Call it “MAGA? Nope!”

Yeah, nah, we're good dawgs. The democrat-republican third party would just be what the Dems are now - a right-of-center status quo capitulation party. Fuck every single one of you and your mothers. Have a good day.

This seems like a trap that will enable the MAGAs to win more elections without a majority of votes.....

“We need to get back to our centrist roots. This authoritarianism is hurting profits” said the capitalists en masse

The article doesn't name names and only mentions "centerists." Those can all fuck off and make their own party. It will split the republican votes the most.

Wish they were in discussion to overhaul our fptp voting system. Any third party is doomed to fail, by design, until first past the post is in the rear view mirror.

Should’ve pushed for ranked choice voting when they had the chance.

Oh, great. That's what we want. A third party that's also right-of-center. Yay.

Center right and far right party join together, to create the right party

All these left of fascist, but still love some good old fashioned racism and misogyny shitheads, will hopefully leave some room for more progressives on the left, and the Right will continue in just more dysfunction.

I guess Trump is going to get that 3rd term after all

I don't think that it's going to work. I assume that the people who most aren't happy are moderate Republicans who can't stand Trump and company:

Disgruntled Republicans sick of being bullied by Donald Trump and Democrat centrists imperiled by the Left are secretly having conversations about forming a third party in American politics, The Swamp can exclusively reveal.

But they aren't gonna be enough votes alone. The people they'd best get along with are probably moderate Democrats, but the Democrats just ran Harris, who is also pretty moderate, so I doubt that moderate Democrats are especially upset at the moment. I think that they'd have a tough time attracting a bunch of moderate Democrats.

If you had just had an election between, I don't know, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, then maybe you could try to run off with the Democratic center.

The second problem is that the US electoral system always stabilizes around two big-tent parties. It can be disrupted temporarily, but you're gonna eventually get two parties. If one or both of the Big Two parties splinter, they will just reform into a new two parties in a few years. So even if you get people who are unhappy with the status quo, once things stop shifting around, you're gonna have two big-tent parties again.

It's not clear to me that introducing a new party solves problems here. Like, you want a different coalition, you can do that within the parties. You're gonna have to make concessions and sell people on it, but long run, you'd have to do that with a new party too.

EDIT: I guess technically they could get a few Greens, but the American Greens are more of a left-wing protest party than specifically being anti-carbon or whatever, the way the German Greens might be. That's probably not gonna have much overlap with moderate Republicans. And there's the Libertarian Party, which might like more relaxed borders and lower barriers to trade, but LPers probably aren't going to generally be really enthusiastic about a muscular foreign policy, which I bet the unhappy people want.

EDIT2: My guess is a more-likely outcome, if the GOP stays Trumpy post-Trump, is that a bunch of Reagan Republican types give up on Trump, just join the Democratic Party and get some policy concessions out of the Democrats.

These are exactly the people we do not want doing this shit.

Alternative link: https://archive.md/fHWe3

The Totalitarian Party, we know.