Well it worked. It did teach Republicans a lesson. It taught them to nomimate a RINO.
Right wingers fail to understand. When they go off to third parties they move the political center to the left. To win Republicans have to replace them with more voters from the left of the old center. That is how the center gets moved to the left. The Republican party when Punished by the right must move to the left in order to have a chance to win.
Can you imagine what would happen if a third party candidate ever did get elected president. NO party can win control of the Senate in one election. And the odds of putting up candidates to win a majority of house seats are very slim.
That would live the house and senate in control of Democrats and Republicans. Who only agree on one thing. They would have to destroy the third party and to do that they would have to destroy the third party president and vice president. I would bet they could find, with the help of the media, enough grounds to impeach him and his VP in less than two years.
This nation is a two Party system. If you don't like either party get active in one of them and change it. A third party is always counter productive to its own goals.
“This nation is a two Party system. If you don’t like either party get active in one of them and change it. A third party is always counter productive to its own goals.” Wise words, well and truly stated.