I agree – ranked choice is strictly better than what we have now. If nothing else, it means that Green Party supporters and Democrats could act as allies instead of being filled with loathing whenever strategic voting comes up.
Note by the way that some states (such as Washington) already have a form of runoff election in the form of a top two primary. It’s only two rounds do it’s not quite the same, but the general idea isn’t as big of a change as you might think.
I just think it’s a very small improvement, not something that will have a large impact in practice. If 10% (or whatever it really ends up being) of the public support the Green Party and continue to be represented by 0% of elected officials, have things really changed meaningfully? Being courted in an offhand way for voters by the ruling party is thin soup, even compared to the alternate approach of just running as a Democrat and attempting to primary the establishment.
