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Epic faceplant. I have no idea who convinced Trump that this would be a good plan, but the dems need to send whoever it was a fruit basket and a box of cigars.
On paper, it is actually a really good idea.
libertarians are basically chickenshit republicans who don't want to acknowledge how they get their dream world that... is pretty damned similar to the republican dream world. The problem is that trump is just an unlikable and obnoxious piece of shit. And libertarians are incredibly fragile and need to have their ego stroked endlessly because they are "enlightened" and "above the petty two party system". And trump almost immediately started talking about how he was one of the best libertarians and blah blah blah.
Removing the trump factor, it would be like if Biden (or, honestly, even Sanders) were to go talk in front of a tankie rally. On paper, they want many of the same things and have many of the same policies. But they would be one poorly phrased message away from failing a purity test and being booed out of the venue.
Anyone who doesn't think they deserve better than a two party system is like an abnoxious teacher's pet that just kept doubling down repeatedly into adulthood. Insulting someone for saying they deserve more than that gives me major 2nd hand embarrassment. You may want to work on your insult game.
Anyone that doesn't acknowledge that we are stuck with a two party system is like an obnoxious teenager mad that they got a Toyota when they wanted a Lexus. No one is happy about it but it's not going to change
It would be astounding if, after thousands of years of countries having their political systems changing, this would be the time period where all of a sudden, everything just gets cemented in place. Anyone who thinks nothing can change is like an obnoxious teenager who thinks the world didn't exist before they were born.
This is all besides the point though, this whole thing is about some dummy that thought that it's a clever insult to say that a group doesn't like the two party system. Obviously, it's a pretty bad insult if practically nobody wants a two party system. It's like insulting somebody because they don't inject mayonnaise into their pillow to make it extra soft.