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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Just doesn't fly in the States with the electoral college. Maybe in a system like France it could work. Also Trump really doesn't have any money.
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It definitely doesn't work if Trump's goal is to return to power. But I'm not sure that's his goal. If his goal is to set up his own right-wing media empire and milk the rubes for all they're worth, he might be able to do that more effectively as the undisputed leader of a third-party.
And he has one big thing going for him that no other third-party candidate has: the leverage and localized popularity to force at least a few sitting house members to defect. If he lays it on the line that he's demanding loyalty from every QAnon-type candidate that he helped bring to power, he could claim a dozen seats and a level of legitimacy that no other (edit: modern) third party has ever achieved.
Do I think he'll go that direction? No, probably not. But I think there's a real chance that he could.