Our Founding Fathers had no use at all for the concept of Political Parties and said so on numerous occasions. Where is it written that we must limit our selves to a “two party” system when in fact and in practice we only have one party that is disguised as two?
The value of convinving your OPPONENTS to split into two parties is that you can win when you are outnumbered, because you split your opponents votes between two candidates instead of one.
third parties gave us Bill Clinton
third parties throw victory to the party least aligned with them.
do the freaking math. Zero, i mean ABSOLUTELY ZERO possibility of third party victories in general elections if they lack the votes to win in a two party primary.
Win the primaries, win the party, win the elections. THAT is the strategy.
Fooling the less intelligent among your opponents into splitting off into a third party, is ALSO a good strategy for victory, but you have to infiltrate their party and find enough people foolish enough to be decieved that it is a good idea.