ERICK ERICKSON on the prospect of a third party, then and now:

July 18, 2011 [archive]: “I have long criticized the calls of many disaffected conservatives for a third party and I maintain that position. The closest I have come to calling for a third party is to encourage tea party activists to take over the GOP from within. External third parties are not, in my mind, a solution to anything, but a great enabler of Democrats.”

March 16, 2016 [archive]: “The time to prepare a third party alternative has to begin now.”

Reminder: In the summer of 2015, Erickson inadvertently helped to popularize the term “cuckservative,” which, as it happens, describes him perfectly. On Twitter, he linked others to an early blog post about the term. [archive] His fellow cuckservative Matt K. Lewis [archive] wrote about this discovery at The Daily Caller. This was followed by cuckservative Erick Erickson [archive] himself writing up a treatment at RedState. (For a superior discussion of the term, [archive] see the Breitbart article by Milo Yiannopoulos, or the book by Vox Day and John Red Eagle. [archive]) Erickson was soon let go from RedState, after which he started The Resurgent, his current platform for accidentally revealing the American “conservative” establishment to be one big joke.