There’s a New Centrist Political Party. It’s Going Nowhere.
It's true that US voters dislike Democrats and Republicans. But Americans dislike each other even more, and disagree fiercely about what the alternative should be.
Call him Mr. In-Between
Photographer: Prakash Singh/AFP via Getty ImagesThe founders of a new political party, “Forward,” acknowledge that third parties usually fail. They say that previous third-party efforts flopped “either because they were ideologically too narrow or the population was uninterested.”
Theirs will succeed, they reason, because polls show that Americans are eager for an alternative to the two dominant parties and theirs will be broad-based and moderate. That’s the explanation that two former Republicans and one former Democrat — former US Representative David Jolly of Florida, former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman and 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang — offered in the Washington Post.