Donald Trump, for all of his flaws, would have a light shown upon his every transgression while Joe Biden would receive little if any public blowback for scandal, failure, or expansion of presidential power.
My Thoughts on the Lesser of Two Evils Argument
“Of Two Evils Choose Neither” was a worthy sentiment in 2016, but is less helpful towards being part of the solution in 2020.
Lesser Evils, False Dilemmas, and Cognitive Dissonance
Intellectual consistency is not an embrace of a false dichotomy. But to reject the lesser-of-two-evils approach in 2016 only to embrace it in 2020 is clear cognitive dissonance.
Lesser Evils: A Bridge Too Far
I refuse to add my name to a mandate for a politician I don’t remotely support.
A Case Against the “Lesser of Two Evils”
Morally, I cannot support an evil, even if it is less evil. Ours is a Republic that was not founded to be governed by lesser evils. When we vote for the lesser of two evils, we are still choosing evil, affirming evil, and enabling evil.