Those guys didn’t run in national elections. A comparison of a real thing that happened with a complete hypothetical cannot be airtight. Also saying “I think people shouldn’t claim with certainty how alternative histories would play out” isn’t fatalist. It is just how reality works.
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If we had done this, it seems likely that it would have had this result. I can’t know that, but I can still stack up strengths and weaknesses and have a thesis.
They should do that again.