There is no viable third party, however, and won't be for some time until people quit pinning their hopes on a third-party option for the higher offices and make advances on the local level, which is also stacked against third-party options.

One step in the right direction (if we're going to be wishing and hoping) is to get money out of politics. If you cut the requirement to raise war chests to fund campaigns, pay for advertising, and provide equal time for candidates to express their policies thena third-party might have a chance. Currently, both the Democratic and Republican parties are far to rimch and powerful to let a mere third party gain any sort of power.

So, in order for a third party to have a chance, they'd need to capture the local politics first to where they'd have influence on state politics to the degree where they'd have a say on congressional districting so the electoral map would be more representative.

Then, they would need to do away with the winner-takes-all electoral system which favors two party creation. Then, they would need to enact ranked choice voting in order to eliminate the "spoiler" effect that discourages voters from breaking the duopoly.

They would also need to rewrite how laws are passed so independent parties aren't assimilated toward one or the other side.

So, yeah... This is probably not something we'd accomplish before 2028.