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Yeah, that would be an extremely tough position to be in.I have to be completely honest. If things were the other way around, and I agreed with my candidate on all the issues but they made the same threats to democracy itself, it's easy to sit here and say I'd do the right thing in a hypothetical situation. I would like to think I'd vote for the candidate who would gracefully accept losing an election and not try to seek a third term or make themself president for life like Putin even if I waaay disagreed with them on literally every single issue, but honestly if I found myself facing a choice like that, I know I'd find it extremely hard![]()
For a fleeting moment that made me feel a bit of compassion for Trump supporters. But then I remember that it's not like they agree with him on many "issues" other than he makes a lot of them feel better about not liking the people they don't like. Time and time again when faced with questions about actual issues, you see them fall back to the cult of personality and reject logic and reason.
I'd say I truly miss the days where both major sides of American politics just had differences of opinion, before Limbaugh and the talk radio types (and the money men behind them) turned everything into a culture war for profit...but I'm not sure it ever really existed during my political lifetime.
There's been moments.
John McCain, for whatever faults he had, was still a decent human being. Of course Trump had to try and stomp all over his legacy...