Comic by Brooke Bourgeois for The New Yorker.

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      He is an independent candidate. There is, by definition no independent party.

      The lumping together of all independants is disingenuous.

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          Right, which is not a party that is representative of all independants. In fact, by labeling it a party, they are no longer independent, they are, you know, a party.

          By that logic, the Green party is an “independent” party.

          Think of it from this perspective. Bernie Sanders is an independent. Here is how Wikipedia defines it: it:

          “An independent, non-partisan politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association.”

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        RFK Jr. He literally had brain worms apparently. This is not a figure of speech.