Thread by @terrorhousemag

Anyone who talks about forming a right-wing third party to replace the GOP is terminally delusional.

Not ONCE in American history has a third party replaced a major party. It has literally never happened. You idiots certainly aren't going to pull it off.

Our current two-party structure dates back to the 1850's, when the Republican Party was founded.

People think the Republicans were a third party when they were founded. They were not. They were a major party from day one since they were founded by former Whigs.

The Whig Party, which was one of the two dominant parties from the 1830's to the 1850's, HAD ALREADY COLLAPSED by the time the GOP was founded.

The Republicans had instant credibility because they had former Whigs in the ranks and there was a vacuum from the Whigs' implosion.

In other words, for your stupid neo-Nazi/groyper/whatever party to succeed, you a) need the GOP to collapse and b) need to recruit significant ex-Republicans.

The GOP isn't in danger of collapsing. Not with the party united behind Trump. So you're already fucked.

As for significant ex-Republicans joining your vanity project, not happening. For that matter, even if a Ted Cruz or a Josh Hawley wanted to join the NJP, would the "Central Committee" even let them? They'd probably scream "ZIOCUCK" at them and slam the door shut in their faces.

Same pattern holds even if you go back past the 1850's. The Whigs were preceded by the National Republicans, which were essentially just proto-Whigs, with the same politicians in both parties. The Whigs didn't start out as a third party either.

Both the National Republicans and the modern Democratic Party came out of the Jeffersonian Republicans, the dominant political force from 1800 to 1824. Again, neither of them started out as third parties. Your plan was invalidated even before execution, Enoch.

The absolute best third parties have accomplished on the national stage is electing some congressmen and senators. The best performance a third party ever had in a presidential race was in 1912, when Theodore Roosevelt ran as the Progressive candidate.

So no, your third party idea is stupid, you're stupid, you don't know history, you don't know political science, and you should delete your account and close down your "party" before you're arrested for campaign finance violations.