I love how with pure Goebbels-style repetition, the idea “Trump is so horrifying that we should put a stop to him even if you think the alternative isn’t great” has become some kind of bogeyman. Bro, it is the reality. It is the unvarnished truth and I can’t see how anyone can possibly say it’s not.

If you don’t like a local police force brutalizing your protest and Biden not doing anything to stop them or even say they shouldn’t do that (which, I agree, is bad), you’re really not gonna like Trump v2 ordering the National Guard to open fire on you or having federal agents drive around snatching people. And that was last time, before Project 2025 succeeded in its organized effort to remove a lot of the guard rails that prevented, for example, those orders to fire on protestors from actually being carried out.

And yes, working for ranked choice voting, or giving the Democrats a whole bunch of shit for being their corrupt neoliberal selves, both sound like great ideas. I don’t see those as mutually exclusive with voting not to end the world in this specific election. Do you know for example how difficult it will be to work for ranked choice voting if Trump’s expanded CBP has seized the voting machines and is going to announce who the winner of all the elections at all levels going forward is?