…Initial evidence suggests that, in a rematch between Biden and Trump, a No Labels and/or West campaign could pull marginal support from Biden and subtly shift the election toward Trump. Whether this would actually make for a potential spoiler, though, is a different question: History — and common sense — suggest that these possible third-party candidates would be most likely to affect the outcome if the overall race were close. But in our deeply divided political era, close elections have been the norm, which makes a spoiler candidacy a live possibility…
The 1700s framework unable to anticipate modern issues turned oligarchic mess that is the US political system isn’t liberal democracy and it’s way overdue for a total overhaul.
Of course, one of the things that the 1700s ruling elite wasn’t able to anticipate is that there would be several times more states and that gerrymandering and other fuckery would lead to a perpetual near-stalemate, making their amendment process literally impossible to enact.