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Roughly 1/3 voted for the winner, 1/3 for the loser, and the rest didn’t vote.

A majority did not choose this.

Not voting against evil is indeed voting for evil and that is what the net majority did.

The minority doesn't have a charismatic leader to rally around so we don't have a "movement" that can fight back against the corruption at scale. Democrats need to stop taking the high road and start thinking "WWRD?" and out do them.

What Would Reagan Do?

I meant Republicans more broadly. Whatever bad things Reagan did, it is a shadow on current Republican tactics.

Ah gotcha, now that I reread your comment it's obvious what you meant. My bad!

I mean, Reagan won 489 electoral votes and then followed it up with another 525, they could try doing some of that.

You don't really have a choice here. As a "conservative" (what ever that means...) I got two different evils that I couldn't stand. I voted third party, but even that party wasn't very close to what I really believe.

The parties are not nearly symmetrical and if Harris with democrats are as evil to you ... then you are literally the problem. And you contributed to everything Trump does.

I mean it. This both are same evil is either bullshit or completely wrapped non existent morality.

They are not the same evil. They are two very different evils and neither is acceptable.

Many polls were done post election about preferences among non voters.

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-elec...

In a two-party system, not voting (no matter what your stated rationale for it is) is functionally going "I support whatever everyone else picks, whatever they decide is fine with me." Under any reasonable consequentialist ethical system, I would say that is "choosing this".

I even wonder how much of the 1/3 who voted for him now regret it.

Not many. And even fewer would make a different choice, given the opportunity.

Change will rely entirely on people who sat out 2024. The question is how much regret they feel. Cynically, I assume most people would rather alter their world-views to justify their choice, than admit that they had made a mistake.

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