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Here are the first two episodes of REFORM!, in case you missed them:
Part 1: https://youtu.be/NqqaW1LrMTY?si=QPCxYJHMoSDCLbJu
Part 2: https://youtu.be/Qq9YDwPatGk?si=RxCwuLZX-lpkf9s2
What is the Reform Party platform entering the 2000 election? Everything. Name a political issue you feel strongly about, and odds are, it’s both strongly for it and strongly against it. Bear witness as the weirdest collection of wingnuts, cranks, careerists and scumbags ever assembled in American politics presides over the righteous and necessary implosion of what inevitably became the pointless anti-movement we call the Reform Party.
Written, edited, produced, everything by Jon Bois
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An hour and a half documenting the downfall of the American third party yet my main take away is that John properly pronounces Appalachian
Fantastic documentary, Jon. Thank you for putting in the work and sharing this with the world.
Alright so Jon Bois 2024?
“Goddammit Jerry”
Wow, the fact that Pennsylvania didn’t even have a percentage point on it at all for Pat Buchanan on the Associated Press’s polling chart @ 55:40 is very hilarious and makes me pretty happy and proud to be from that state.
Jon Bois though.
stay strong Americans, stay strong ❤
The more I learn about reform, the more I understand that Perot victory would kill any jind of third party for the next few centuries
I fw hagelin heavy
52:35
Goddammit Jon you made me feel bad for Pat actual Buchanan. How the hell did you do that?
22:40
1:14:42 They are right. Welcome to the real world
Special shoutout to William Clark, true neutral
"The Flu would poll better than this"
"Just two ships sinking in the night."
Jon has to know that he says these things, right? He can't be unaware of how well these phrases work, right?
so let’s vote Jill Stein?
20:47 sounds familiar…
I very much disagree with your conclusion. The Reform Party is not evidence that 3rd parties are good. They did nothing, accomplished nothing, helped elect a warmonger, and were taken over by white nationalists.
I'm not a big fan of a two party system, but if anything the tragedy of the Reform Party is the best endorsement of it.
I hope the next one is about sports again.
The utter lack of mention of poor James Stockdale, Perot’s VP candidate in 1992, perplexes me because if anything, that was a pretty important sign that Perot was all wax and no wick and made what came after that inevitable. I remember watching the VP debate in 1992 (or rather my dad watching it, I was a kid) and Stockdale could best be described as “befuddled” and clearly recall him wondering what he was he doing there while Gore and Quayle squabbled. Perot being who he was made his questionable decisions inevitable; that the party lasted long enough for Buchanan to torpedo it was miraculous.
Flytrap!!! 😄
1:02:36, there was a movie sequel called Son of Flubber, where a football was kicked and kept rising. I remember Paul Lind was the announcer and stated, "it keeps going up, and up, and up…"
Buchanan put flubber in the stat line.
There isn't a single democratically elected government us has overthrown this century
35:14 😂😂😂
“The second worst option” concept is bang on and the same applies to most countries. Modern politics does not allow for real reform