Much like Andrew Yang’s candidacy for president, the third party he co-founded is doomed to fail. onesarahjones writes
Photo: Marco Bello/Getty Images Remember Andrew Yang? The one-time Democratic candidate for president is back with a new venture whose goal is nothing less than the transformation of American politics. Dissatisfied with the Democratic Party and alienated by the right, Yang finds himself in a position many Americans could understand. His solution to this predicament, though, is unlikely to appeal to almost anyone.
In a joint editorial for the Washington Post, the trio depict a nation in crisis. “Americans have lost faith in government,” they write, citing a New York Times/Siena poll which found that voters overwhelmingly believed the country is heading in the wrong direction. “Shockingly, roughly 30 million Americans believe violence against the current government is justified. The same number want to forcibly return former president Donald Trump to the White House,” they continue.
But a true American “independent,” as Yang defines it, is an elusive creature. Labels often mean one thing to pundits and politicians, and quite another to the people who adopt them. Senator Bernie Sanders, for example, is an independent, though the democratic socialist wouldn’t find a home in Yang’s avowedly centrist party. Sanders’s partisan inclinations aren’t unusual for an American independent, either.
As for Democratic voters, centrists have few reasons to disaffiliate themselves from the national party. Yang may despise the Squad, but as leftist voters themselves could tell him, the Squad does not own the party. Rather, the party seems intent on curbing the left’s influence wherever possible. For proof, look no further than the party’s support for the anti-abortion congressman Henry Cuellar in Texas, whose candidacy they backed over a young pro-choice woman.
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