I appreciate a good sympathetic reading, but ultimately you will not change the people who insist that Trump is a more honest choice for progressives. that's because the whole motive there is punitive--not about the slow, often demoralizing work of activism so much as sticking it to Joe Biden.
I mention this mostly because I sometimes feel I'm going crazy on here! but truly, the impulse to somehow punish Democrats by ushering in Trump is just another way of cosplaying for the so-called revolution that will only ever exist online in quarreling leftist forums.
unfortunately, governance mostly sucks! the system of government we have in the states is constitutionally disposed to be especially sucky! most of the time, you will not feel good about making choices on election day; that's because the real work happens outside the polls.
There's a part of me that believes that a source of our current malaise is that we bought into the consumerist vision of government as a service that we purchase instead of a framework that we need to participate in.
While the true consumers of government (oil corps, real estate lobbyists, Bros pharma and tech, banks etc) are people who absolutely should not be in charge of governance.
