Andrew Yang has launched his "Forward Party"

[brooklynite]

Seems like a rehash of his Presidential campaign ideas with some other pie-in-the-sky notions.

More importantly, they already have a merch store...

https://www.forwardparty.com

[W_HAMILTON]

1. Andrew Yang, stop trying to make Andrew Yang happen.

[PortTack]

2. Pray god it doesn't hurt us in the midterms

[brooklynite]

5. Doesn't sound like they'll have their own ballot lines for a number of years...

...they suggest they might cross-endorse major party candidates.

[left-of-center2012]

3. As a third party ...

He will have to compete against the libertarians, the greens, etc

[Joinfortmill]

4. I think he's done.

[Fullduplexxx]

6. Is Jill Stein his running mate

[calguy]

7. Forward, into the past....

[msongs]

16. how can you be in 2 places at once when you're not anywhere at all? nt

[calguy]

18. Another Firesign junkie, I see

There seems to be more than a few of us on DU.

[Indykatie]

8. Yang is a Grifting Attention Seeking Whore. There I Said It.

[catsudon]

9. i'm so glad he did not win nyc mayor

i may have once give him an extra look due to being asian. but that will only get you as far as a free lunch with me

[Moebym]

10. Ralph Nader is not a good role model.

[budkin]

11. He's so goddamn naive

It's embarrassing

[luv2fly]

12. "Forward" is the Wisconsin State motto

How dare he.

[Demsrule86]

13. Since Yang is not a Democrat...nor running as a Democrat, I can say with great fervor...

Fuck Yang...a big loser who has to blame others for his lousy campaigning skills and multiple, deserved losses.

[DFW]

14. He thinks stealing Macron's party's name is going to make him President?

"Forward" is close to a direct translation of "en marche."

The tactic didn't work for Franz Schönhuber, either. Schönhuber was an ex-SS officer who wanted to start a neo-Nazi party in Germany in the 1980s. That is, of course, strictly illegal in Germany, so he had to look around for another name. He found it right in Reagan's America. He called his new neo-fascist party "Die Republikaner." It never got anywhere beyond the initial headlines. When I used to point out Schönhuber's party to Republicans in the USA, they used to get all indignant and ask, "are you calling us Nazis?" I would answer, "not at all! I only find it unfortunate that a bunch of unrepentant German Nazis find your party so inspiring as to want to adopt your name." They didn't like that answer, but they didn't have much to counter it with, either.

[Hekate]

15. Sad

[Hortensis]

17. Maybe he can pull from the idea that people like Nina Turner,

Sarandon, Cornel West, etc had to start a third party. Took a while to find anything, pretty much still moribund. But near as I can tell they've gone back to fundraising from those who'll donate to anyone who'll badmouth Democrats (aka shitlibs).

Hmmm. Seem to have radicalized against vaccine mandates and the Huge Authoritarian Threat from...Democrats (!) Oh, and three definite swipes at Ocasio-Cortez, or maybe three strikes. Apparently she's not answering their calls.

Well, maybe not, pretty much a dry hole. Yang should find better hunting around Joe Rogan's. Drawing people away from that poisoned hole should be a good deed in itself.

[calguy]

19. It's too bad, really

I think he's a really smart guy in his field, but as an amateur politician pushing some really far out and stupid ideas, he makes a fool of himself. The biggest tragedy is that, like trump, he's so caught up in his own ego he can't see any of it.