alt Hacker NewsRoughly 1/3 voted for the winner, 1/3 for the loser, and the rest didn’t vote.
A majority did not choose this.
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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.
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 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.