The Dean of No Labels
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To listen to people try to explain how Nancy Jacobson’s pro-Trump ratfucking operation could help Democrats is to hear logic subject to things that are inconsistent with the Eigth Amendment:
Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota, a Democrat running a long-shot primary challenge to President Biden, said on Saturday that he would consider running on the ticket of No Labels, a centrist group exploring an independent bid, if it appeared the general election would be a rematch between Mr. Biden and Donald J. Trump.
In an interview, Mr. Phillips publicly articulated for the first time the circumstances in which he would accept the No Labels presidential nomination, and said he was in regular communication with Nancy Jacobson, the group’s chief executive. Democratic allies of Mr. Biden have been alarmed by No Labels, worrying that any candidate it runs could siphon votes from him.
“People are criticizing them because they believe whomever they offer on their ticket will hurt Joe Biden,” Mr. Phillips said after a town-hall event at a senior center in Nashua, N.H. “That’s false. If they put someone at the top of the ticket who could actually drive votes from Donald Trump, every Democrat in the United States of America should be celebrating it. They haven’t made that determination.”
Mr. Phillips has a long relationship with Ms. Jacobson and No Labels from his tenure in the group’s congressional Problem Solvers Caucus, an organization that promotes policies with bipartisan support.
“If they put someone at the top of the ticket who could actually drive votes from Donald Trump” is about as useful a hypothetical to discuss as “what if Sam Alito started casting the same votes as Sonia Sotomayor.” But it’s particularly hilarious to see the Problem Solver’s [extreme sic] Caucus floated as the magic formula that will break open the Trump coalition. Yes, if there’s anything that unites Trump voters, it’s the conviction that rich educated professionals in coastal suburbs don’t have enough disposable income.
Admittedly, Phillips is too much of a void to be a useful tool for ratfuckers, and I’m sure Jacobson and Penn understand this even if he doesn’t.