in case there is some confusion, let me be clear.

i could not have voted in the last american election.

but, my heart was with jill stein, and my brain was with hillary clinton - as a lesser evil choice.

barely.

so, i made the argument that you should vote for clinton to beat trump. but, this was intellectual.

the truth is that i probably wouldn't have voted at all.

stein made the argument that it really wasn't clear that clinton was a lesser evil, and i think that she was right on that point. she may have been a lesser evil on the environment, which would have been my dominant voting concern. it is not clear that she was a lesser evil on the economy, and she was probably a greater evil on foreign policy.

i'm ultimately of the view that trump has not demonstrated much policy that is substantively different than clinton's - i'm not sure that clinton would have been much different.

we'll see, in the end, what kind of major policy initiatives come out of trump's presidency. as of now, he's really been a caretaker president.