Andrew Yang to Abandon Democrats and Start a Third Party Andrew Yang, formerly a 2020 presidential hopeful and 2021 candidate for mayor of New York City, is expected to abandon his affiliation with the Democratic Party and start a third party this fall.
The launch will occur in tandem with the release of Yang’s latest book, “Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy” on October 5th, two people familiar with the development told Politico.
“Forward” is expected to be a condemnation of establishment elitism and America’s “era of institutional failure” wrought by “politicians whose incentives have become divorced from the people they supposedly serve.”
A few prominent figures have offered comments on the book, including businessman Mark Cuban, who called it “vitally important.”
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The New York Times’ Kara Swisher left a blurb suggesting that the book argues that a third party could be the antidote to the malfunctions of our current political system: “Can there be another political party in the U.S.?…In ‘Forward,’ Yang does not just give us a laundry list of intractable problems, but shows how we can find solutions if we think in new ways and summon the courage to do so.”.....................
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