As a practical matter, defeating RINOs in primaries is a lot easier than starting a 3rd party.
Suppose there is a district that is 60% Republican and 40% Democrat. If you get 51% of the vote in the Republican primary, your candidate wins. (assuming the RINO you beat in the primary doesn't throw a tantrum and run as an independent and split the Republican vote)
Suppose you run as a 3rd party candidate, with 51% support from Republicans and 0% support from democrats. In the general election, the Democrat then wins with 40% of the vote. (with the vote being 40%/30.1%/29.9%)
If you start a 3rd party, you're just throwing elections to Democrats.
While I understand what you're getting at, I am beyond done with the louts in the GOP. In my humble opinion, this party is so deeply infected with Swamp rats that it's beyond repair. I think we would have much better luck breaking this uniparty structure if we just ran through a new party. If anyone could make it work, it would be Donald Trump.
As a practical matter, defeating RINOs in primaries is a lot easier than starting a 3rd party.
Suppose there is a district that is 60% Republican and 40% Democrat. If you get 51% of the vote in the Republican primary, your candidate wins. (assuming the RINO you beat in the primary doesn't throw a tantrum and run as an independent and split the Republican vote)
Suppose you run as a 3rd party candidate, with 51% support from Republicans and 0% support from democrats. In the general election, the Democrat then wins with 40% of the vote. (with the vote being 40%/30.1%/29.9%)
If you start a 3rd party, you're just throwing elections to Democrats.
While I understand what you're getting at, I am beyond done with the louts in the GOP. In my humble opinion, this party is so deeply infected with Swamp rats that it's beyond repair. I think we would have much better luck breaking this uniparty structure if we just ran through a new party. If anyone could make it work, it would be Donald Trump.
Once you make a party, with formal rules, and start having success, the rats will still join. Look at what happened to Ross Perot's party in 2000.
OK, you make a 3rd party and it's successful. What prevents all the RINOs from just joining your new party?