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You Only Sail Twice

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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Third Party in American Politics

A successful third party kills one of the existing parties and replaces it. The incentive, the built-in incentives and institutional arrangements make it almost impossible to have a multi-party democracy. Third parties typically punish the party they're closest to because they divide the same coalition of voters in some way. But if it's a Trump Biden race, I think there's a big middle available for a Mitch Daniels, Joe Manchin ticket.

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