In 2016 I wrote an op-ed titled "Run Mike and Jim, Run" referring to possible third-party candidacies by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Virginia Senator Jim Webb. (The piece was published under a less catchy title.) Today I am even more concerned about the state of American politics than I was then, so I was dismayed to read reports of Democratic and (former) Republican operatives scheming to torpedo the contingency plans of No Labels to give the 2024 electorate an alternative to a choice between President Biden and - what now appears likely - former President Donald...
