> An AI bailout would be a poison pill that would electorally doom whichever party was behind it for decades.

Two concerns:

1. In a duopoly it won't doom either one party, not if the bailout-seekers involved are able to bribe them both equally.

2. A politician in not-so-bad party could let the other party doom itself in a long-term diffuse sense... Or they could accept some generous short-term very concentrated-on-me donations. The interest of the group is not always the interest of the members.

The US desperately needs voting-reform, to reduce the spoiler-effect and winner-take-all mechanics.