| American Third Position Party | |
|---|---|
| Chairman | William D. Johnson |
| Senate leader | None |
| House leader | None |
| Founded | January 5, 2010[1] |
| Headquarters | Westminster, California |
| Ideology | Paleoconservatism, White nationalism, Third Position |
| Political position | Fiscal: Far-Right Social: Third Position |
| International affiliation | None |
| Seats in the Senate | None |
| Seats in the House | None |
| Website | |
| http://www.american3rdposition.org/ | |
| Politics of the United States Political parties Elections |
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The American Third Position Party is an American political party which claims to be neither right wing nor left wing, but a Third Position, and tends to promote white nationalism. [2] It was founded in 2010 partially to channel the right-wing populist resentment engendered by the financial crisis of 2007–2010 and the policies of the Obama administration.[3] and defines its principal mission as representing the political interests of white Americans.[4] The party takes a strong stand against immigration[5] and globalization,[6] and strongly supports an anti-interventionist foreign policy.[7] Although the party does not support labor unions, they do strongly support the labor rights of the American working class on a platform of placing American workers first over illegal immigrant workers and banning of overseas corporate relocation of American industry and technology.[8]
The party chairman is Los Angeles attorney William Daniel Johnson. Long Beach State University professor of psychology Kevin B. MacDonald has been named the party Director, and is also a principal contributor to The Occidental Quarterly[9][10] where he has contributed articles claiming that a suite of traits that he attributes to Jews, including higher-than-average verbal intelligence and ethnocentricism, have eugenically evolved to enhance the ability of Jews to conspire to out-compete non-Jews for resources while undermining the power and self-confidence of the white majorities in Europe and America whom he insists Jews seek to disposess.[11][12][13]
New Hampshire state party chairman Ryan Murdough ran in the Republican Party of New Hampshire primary for a seat representing the Eighth District of the Grafton County delegation to the New Hampshire House of Representatives,[14] but he was refused support by the Republican party, which called him a "despicable racist".[15] He placed fifth out of five candidates in the Republican primary, garnering 296 votes (11%).[16] Murdough is now the National Political Director for the National Socialist American Labor Party, a party which espouses Nazi beliefs.[17]
Former Olympic athlete, and Populist Party Presidential candidate Bob Richards, publicly announced his membership in the American Third Position Party, during the summer of 2010.[18]
In November 2009 the American Third Position Party filed papers with the office of the California Secretary of State, hoping to become a fully ballot-accessible party by the time of the June 2010 California primary election.[19] However, the party failed to qualify and did not get on the 2010 ballot in California[20] or any other state.[21] The party received enough signatures to get Harry Bertram on the ballot for the 2011 West Virginia gubernatorial special election. [22] Bertram's campaign ran a television ad emphasizing his desire to advance the interests of white Americans. Bertram was soundly defeated in the election, coming in last place out of 5 candidates on the ballot and netting only 1,111 votes; less than 0.4 percent of the total. [23]