What the Forward party is really about.

[rogue emissary]

Link to tweet

.@RepMcKinley is a West Virginia Republican Congressman who supported cash relief and the infrastructure bill. He’s now running against a Trump-endorsed candidate. I’m supporting David and hope you will too.

So what was the point of him running as a Democrat twice and now starting his own party? To just back a Republican.

[Haggard Celine]

1. You know, I thought Yang was a decent enough fellow during the primaries.

I thought he needed experience in government and he shouldn't be starting at the top, but I thought he had a good idea or two. But what I've seen in the NYC mayor's race and his latest ventures have shown me that he's just a flake.

[HUAJIAO]

3. I always thought he was a flake, he and Elon Musk..but a different kinda flake..

[FM123]

2. Oh no.

I kinda liked Yang - he wasn't my candidate (I was a Warren gal) but I liked a lot of what he said. But wth is this?

[Budi]

4. Is he becoming the Elon of politics?! RepMcKinley also Voted Against Impeaching Trump

Guess he left that part out of the tweet.
🙄

Link to tweet

[Beartracks]

5. Is this a Republican primary he's talking about?

[betsuni]

6. It's what he said the party was about. Open primaries. No Left. No Right. Forward.

Literally a third way.

Supporting the least bad Republican in a primary (finally, correct use of "the lesser of two evils" ) who has actually voted with Democrats (miracle).

I don't think the Forward Party is going to be around very long.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Seeing the Backside of the Forward Party

I have never been impressed with Andrew Yang nor have I have never understood his appeal. He has no real platform or political accomplishments, The Forward Party appears to be a scam that really is only designed to help TFG

Link to tweet

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/forward-party-andrew-yang-trump/

haven’t written about the Forward Party, founded by the adrift Yang, who ran for president as a Democrat, ran for New York mayor as a Democrat, failed spectacularly at both, and then decided the problem wasn’t him or his politics or his communication skills—it was the Democratic Party.

He found two older, retired Republicans, former Florida representative David Jolly and former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman, to give him bipartisan cover for what is essentially an attack on Democrats. Because the law of third-party dynamics is: The party the new group is closest to is the party that will suffer if the new group gathers mass. Obviously, that party is the Democrats.

Yang’s sympathetic Trump tweet reminds us that third-party dreams are usually the essence of bothsidesism. Both sides are too extreme; we alone can fix it. Yang’s attempt to vocalize what “millions of Americans” will see as “unjust persecution” is typical for a third-party leader.

Worse, though, is the fact that everyone who covers the far right is seeing growing threats of violence in response to the Mar-a-Lago raid. In his efforts to stay in power, the former president has obviously broken the law. But he and his minions clearly believe that he is above the law and that there is no legitimacy to whatever case the Justice Department might be assembling. There is informed speculation that the raid was to retrieve serious national security documents.

For Yang to even glancingly endorse the notion that the FBI might have unfairly targeted Trump is just one more log on the fire of violent white nationalist extremism. I’m sure he didn’t mean it that way. I’m pretty sure he didn’t know what he meant. The Forward Party is already in my rearview mirror.

[rogue emissary]

8. Thanks for posting.