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They didn't have a better chance though - they lost to a historically bad candidate. Multiple times.
The Democrats are a problem precisely because they occupy the line of resistance to the GOP. You want to stop the GOP, you've got to stop their enablers first.
Well yeah, you do. The problem is that takes a lot of time, and will take massive voting reform, which no one in power has a vested interest in doing.
But we're not talking about future plans, we're talking about what happened in the past. Since there wasn't that voting reform in the past, there was no way for a third party candidate to win.
And again, you're pretending that the Democrats didn't lose as well. If there was no way for a third party candidate to win (because they didn't) there was also no way for the Democrats to win with how they ran.