the_dunk_tank
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This precise argument is what broke me forever from national level politics ie "voting the lesser evil" for president stuff. Matt Christman made this argument years ago on Chapo (I'm not saying he did it first but his way of explaining really stuck in my brain). Basically as you said something like "if the Trump and the Republicans are the fascists, and the only way to beat them is to vote for the Democrats every 2-4 years, and if we ever lose an election then it's over, then we've already lost!" Something to that effect. Which obviously he's 100% correct about.
The other thing that convinced me, and it may have been Matt or the other boys, unsure, was the observation that if the democrats truly truly believe that Republicans are an existential threat to the Democratic Party, the country and the world they sure don't act like it. Meaning that when they have power they never do actions necessary to reverse the harm of Republicans. So in that scenario, how is voting for the "lesser evil" who either is lying about their belief about Republicans or is too cowardly to act or doesn't want to act, etc. actually any different, besides the timescale of [bad thing]? And the obvious conclusion is... if the Democrats are serious, if you believe their claims, yet they do not act when given full power, then it doesn't actually matter which one is in power. The genocide that Biden decided to fully back has really driven a nail in the coffin of any semblance of "lesser evil"-ism.