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Lesser evilism gave us Trump
A bizarre new game is taking Twitter by storm. Liberals are competing with one another to come up with the most extreme and grotesque scenarios in which they would still vote for Joe Biden over Donald Trump
Often you’ll see this sort of discourse in reference to the sexual assault allegations of former Biden staffer Tara Reade. One Twitter user wrote: “I would vote for Biden if he raped 100 women at gunpoint. The stakes are high in this election.”
Another tweeted: “Biden could be murdering puppies and raping their cadavers, and I would still vote for him.”
Of course, this is hyperbole meant to express how committed Democrats are to getting Trump out of office, but it’s still disturbing for a number of reasons — aside from the most obvious.
For starters, if the goal is to get rid of Trump, it doesn’t really doesn’t bode well for the Democrats’ prospects that they’re talking this way about the guy charged with that task.
Pleas to vote for Biden frequently start with the preface “He’s hardly my first choice, but…”
He excites voters less than any candidate in 20 years, standing in stark contrast with…
