Phil Plait: I'm aware. Hence my point about coalitions.

Left-wing parties banded together in France, even though they disagree over many policies, to push down the fascist right-wingers and keep them from power. It's a template of sorts for what we should do come November.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

A complication in the US is that the Democrats are not an alliance of smaller parties with strong cores of loyal voters, they are an umbrella party that spans progressive to center right with a small core of loyal voters and larger conditionally loyal extremes.

I'm aware. Hence my point about coalitions.

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