Are you willing to be defeated before the fight even starts?
Stop talking that way. I mean it. How do you get to be a backwoods engineer unless you are tougher than that.
"Tough" does not imply you use "frontal assault" in every battle. That is suicide, and does not achieve the objective. Precisely because I am the Backwoods Engineer, versed in the wily ways of the woods, I see merit in other tactics: the stalk, the snipe, the trap, the end run.
Voting, at the Federal level, brings no movement back toward a Constitutional order whatsoever. This must be admitted. Just more of the same, accelerating toward tyranny at full throttle. This is primary because the FedGov now consists mainly of the bureaucracy, which has displaced the Constitutional branches, who gave up their power to it willingly.
The only options left are at the state level. Whether by resistance to FedGov dictates (individually or collectively), nullification, limited secession (breaking up states to decentralize power), or full-blown Article V Constitutional conventions, the states are our last hope for return to a Constitutional order.
I submit that we should spend our time on those things, rather than support get another RINO for the Presidency.