“When No Labels was founded in 2010, it had the admirable mission of promoting bipartisanship as a means to encouraging commonsense solutions,” writes Davis.
Davis supported that mission by attending No Labels meetings, hosting events to recruit new supporters and even becoming director of an entity created by No Labels to assist candidates in primaries who shared their vision of bipartisanship.
But now Davis believes its “leaders are so convinced of the righteousness of their cause that they developed a dangerous tunnel vision.”
Davis first saw that tunnel vision in the group’s reluctance to criticize Donald Trump; then in its insistence on balancing criticism of Republicans with criticism of Democrats – creating false equivalencies, he says.
“Now the group’s myopia is demonstrating itself in its third-party presidential effort” that could lead to a second Trump presidency.
No Labels says it wants to prevent a second Trump presidency. If that’s true, says Davis, “the only responsible course for No Labels is to abandon its third-party efforts.”
Read the op-ed at TheHill.com.
