Andrew Yang Floats Starting Third Party Ahead of Book Release – Esquire

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Andrew Yang was some amusing comic relief during the 2020 Democratic primary season. The whole Math thing was an entertaining diversion, and his Yang Gang followers seemed to be enjoying themselves a lot more than the supporters of the more serious candidates did. Finally, I had a great time explaining at every opportunity that Yang was trying to buy my vote for a thousand bucks. They were like the Ron Paul Revolution with a sense of humoror, at the very least, a sense of proportion.

That has turned out to be the limit of my tolerance for Andrew Yang. At this point, hes just slinging his money around and being a nuisance. He launched his campaign for mayor of New York with a brass-band burst of publicity, only to flame out because people in New York found the whole idea of him as mayor to be ridiculous. From the New York Times:

That can be something of a problem. Yang also played the dilettante card badly.

Undaunted by this dip into the cold waters of the Great Lake of Fail, Yang has found another bottomless money pit into which he can toss more of his money. Hes also got a book coming out. These two events are not coincidental. From Politico:

And, this being Tiger Beat on the Potomac, theres some reality-impaired fluffing.

Not translating into votes is considered by most serious political scholars to be something of a detriment to political success. What we have here is another wealthy interloper who found that he had a taste for cheap political celebrity. This is not the time for people like him. Go away, Andrew. Your moneys no good here.

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