So you are saying no third party or Independent candidates should be allowed to run?
Not what he said.
Actually, I would love to see the US have more than one party. But they don't. They have fringe folks running for president with no shot of winning. There is a difference.
It isn't going to happen in the current system, the structural issues are too great.
While I would also prefer more parties, I would also be ok with a much more clear understanding of how the parties work now.
The main difference between two parties and not in most systems is whether or not the coalitions form before the election or after.
There is some argument to be made that before is helpful.
The problem is that the two-party approach tends to
hide the coalition-making and especially in a culture as politically disengaged as the US, it causes confusion since people don't understand what's going on.
It also makes breaking off and switching coalitions harder than it should be.
But then I'm notoriously in favor of a massive overhaul of the whole system to make voting much more expressive for the voters and much more transparent about how your vote affects the result.
Now, I could totally see the GOP split into two parties, one the far right MAGAs, and the other a more centerist GOP...We'll see if that ever happens.
If the GOP split, the question would be which one would wither away.
If the split was heavily regional, each could survive for a while.
