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>The logical endgame of that approach is to have a big tug-of-war between two big coalitions

...why just two? He specifically mentioned advocating for ranked choice voting, which would make it a tug-of-war between N coalitions, and would lead to better outcomes that our current broken two-party system.

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Power is somewhat binary - either you've got it or you don't. Ranked choice doesn't change that. The advantage of ranked choice voting is it allows people to be more expressive in signalling who they want to be in power.

And if N coalitions playing tug-of-war, that means there is an (N-1)/N chance that your preferred one loses. It is much better if everyone agrees not to play that game and adopts smarter strategy. Which has little to do with the number of people participating in the election.

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