The case for a third-party campaign in 2024 is actuarial, not ideological
No Labels wants to be political insurance for democracy, yet may doom it
Nothing in American politics is more quixotic than a third-party presidential campaign. Thus, to political insiders, nothing is also more pathetic or else more cynical: in the best case, the campaign is detached from reality, and in the worst (and, to insiders, the more probable case, since this is politics for God’s sake) it is serving some hidden motive, some interest in the shadows.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Manchin in the muddle”
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