Many have tried it. It is Stalin’s greatest selling point, as he starved to death tens of millions in order to make his five year ag plan a success and the Soviets exporters of grain! You have real roots, baby.
“You have real roots, baby.”
My point was that we, in effect, have only one party now. Since neither R or D has any room for conservatives.
In reality, the majority of even rank and file democrats are conservative. Who is to say that a third party would just draw from the republicans.