Meaning it will make winning an election less likely.
AND that the victory will be meaningless even if “we” win.
In fact that’s what that process is for.
If we “win” only by first agreeing not to fight back—which what these allegedly fence-straddling Trump voters want us to do—we lose.
The fence-straddlers are lying. They’ll find a reason to vote Trump.
And people despair when those who should fight for them won’t.
What would you have to offer to become in order to persuade such a person?
And what good to anybody would you be after you had?
This isn’t my “purity test,” whatever the hell that means.
It’s just some observations about strategy that I think are fairly obvious and should be kept front-of-mind if we don’t want to waste our efforts and betray our values.