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I get the perspective, though I will say I'm not sure the numbers support that they made a difference.
More passively short sighted stuff made the difference "I don't think I'm doing as well as I should be, so I'm going to vote against the incumbent". It's frankly also the only reason Trump lost in 2020, people just saying "stuff sucks right now, I'll take any change I can".
The hard core leftism you see on Lemmy where they bemoan that the democrats are not at all any better than Trump may be very loud, but they are a tiny pittance of people.
If every single third party candidate voter rallied behind Kamala Harris, she still would have lost. I think the hard core 'by definition no candidate that has a chance isn't good enough' would be usually inclined to vote for some third party, just to be able to point and say "see, if you would have courted us it would have made all the difference". I'm skeptical that some overwhelming majority of non-voters were too far to the left to bother to participate.