Only way we get a 3rd party is if someone with Musk or Bezos level wealth decides to build a party infrastructure from the bottom up.

Fund candidates at the local level, then go to the state level when there’s a critical mass of local office holders, then national once there’s a critical mass in state governments.

It would be a multi decade project. But we’ve seen that most billionaires are dedicated to self interest or evil. It won’t happen.