Hey,

I set out to write this new effort to launch a third party and then, a few hundred words in, I started putting out a cigar on my face just to remind myself I’m alive. So, I’m starting over.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d be delighted to see a third party emerge that could send either the GOP or the Democrats the way of the Whigs. It’s just that the topic has been so exhaustingly chewed-over you could drink it with a straw. So let me at least try to come at it from a different angle.

First, I do think that conditions have not been better in my lifetime for a third party to emerge.