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I don't disagree about the full-throated hostility to Trump by sorin69
evinced by many on this board: he is openly contemned by most of the board conservatives. I was talking about voters who would stay at home and not vote precisely because they can't see what amounts to a decisive difference between the two, or that a decisive difference does exist but does not involve matters touching on the existential well-being of the country, so they feel warranted in taking a pass. I had an exchange along these lines with El Kabong some weeks ago, though for him, it was a Democratic victory that touched on existential issues, and why he couldn't repeat his 2020 vote for Biden.