I believe strongly in the value of minor parties and ensuring the coalitions built have a representation of your ideas and ideals. This message is missed in the episode I am responding to so I want to fill in the gaps and let users also understand the math of what it really means to “waste your vote” because it is not what you think.

This second article takes up a more personal side of that same episode: the motivations Hanson ascribes to those currently aligned with Carlson’s movement. The conversation, though, is broader than two popular pundits and their opinions. Any third-party political movement faces the same kind of backlash Hanson exemplifies, and that includes the many minor parties and independent candidacies already operating outside the duopoly. The attack comes in two forms — an attack on th

Victor Davis Hanson asked a question this month that he intended as rhetorical. Speaking with Jack Fowler about the gathering at Tucker Carlson’s home in Maine and the ten-point platform that followed it, he said that these were supposedly learned people, and that they should ask themselves when a third party ever got elected, and when a third party ever did anything other than harm the party most akin to it.