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Episode 170: The Shallow, Audience-Flattering Appeal of the ‘Neither Right Nor Left’ Guy

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Andrew Yang's Third Party Forward

Jesse Waters said she meant to say it's not about Democrat and Republican, but also equally pretty fatuous if you don't really explain what precisely you mean by that. This is a similar framing that is popular with Andrew Yang who famously trial ballooned this above the fray kind of message during his ill-fated techno libertarian campaign for the 2020 presidency. The forward party was officially formed in October 2021 as a political action committee, a PAC. And in July of 2022, the already dubious forward party merged with the equally dubious serve America movement as well as the renew America movement - all helmed by current or former GOP officials.

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