The Trump is Literally a Fascist Hitler Racist Insurrectionist Faction vs. The Trump is Great and Did Nothing Wrong Faction vs. Me

On the Twixxer it seems like almost everybody [accepts one of the two former positions]. Now, I don't think Trump was trying to foment insurrection, and I do think it was permissible for him to pursue the legal avenues he pursued. So the "he tried to overthrow the government" hysteria is...well...I wish I could say totally false...but I may have to stick with extremely very inaccurate. I continue to be unclear on many details, but it seems to me that pursuing the Eastman strategy was permissible, but showed bad judgment. It's often possible to remain committed to a theory or proposition long past the point at which it would be reasonable to admit error. Notoriously, there's generally no bright clear line past which continued belief becomes irrational.

   At any rate, it seems to me that his actions after the election were, though not insurrectionist, virtually indefensible. For a President, that is. Similar acts in less profound contexts are accepted and defended all the time. But, of course, it's the Presidency we're talking about. It was just too important a f*ck up.

   Sidebar: my position about whether the 2020 election has changed a fair bit. I won't describe the whole trajectory, but: one thing is clear: it was not the most secure election of all time. That's a brainless bit of political correctness. It's simply not true. But that doesn't mean that we're justified in believing that it was stolen.

   But I don't dismiss the idea out of hand anymore. I now think we are justified in believing that our elections are only marginally secure. And Dems have shown a willingness to engage in the most outrageous political shenanigans and dirty tricks (see e.g. Russiagate, the 'very fine people' hoax, lawfare, and now what we might call Nazigate). I really do not doubt that many Democrats would cheat if they could get away with it. I mean, wouldn't you cheat to keep a Hitler 2.0 out of power? I would.

   So anyhoo, I guess I'm a weird voter. I think Trump probably lost the election of '20--but I'm not sure of it. Nevertheless, I think his actions subsequent to the loss disqualified him from holding high office...especially the Presidency. But I think that the Democrats have become like a plague of crazy on the land. Their policies, platform, and philosophy/worldview are Orwellian. Totalitarian. Insane. This is hardly about Harris at all--she's like Biden: a featureless functionary, a smooth-running [cog] at the center of the big blue culture-smashing machine.

   Anyway.

   To me, this is a choice between (a) someone whose unreasonable and unpatriotic actions made him genuinely [though probably not legally] ineligible for the office, and (b) a political party that has adopted and is implementing a set of insane dogmas that are actually destroying the nation.

   Oh and: the (a)-guy actually has good policies, and many are correctives for the insane ideas of the (b)-guys....

   So I'm basically running on consequentialist considerations.

   National dignity requires that we never elect Trump again.

   National survival and flourishing, however, require that we keep the Democrats out of office almost no matter what that takes.

   And, specifically: even at the cost of our national dignity.

   Or something like that.

   So, anyway, my sense is that I'm weird in that I really do worry about besmirching my patriotic soul by voting for Trump.