Why wait? I’m ready for another party now-—and as a historian, I know how destructive this can be. It temporarily gives the bad guys immense power, but sometimes you have to take a step back before you can take a step forward.
Plus, the WORST has, pretty much, already happened. It's not like we need to fear a full blown American hating communist getting elected and filling the gov't with fellow travelers.
That's one positive that come from facing worst case scenarios.
Exactly. And if our side had started a new party back when the serious talk seems to have begun, about 15 years ago or so, IIRC, we could have coalesced quite nicely by this point. But the answer was always that forming a third party would just hand it to the Rats.