Simple math.
If I vote for Trump - Trump 1, Hillary 0
If I vote for Hillary - Trump 0, Hillary 1
If I vote for neither - Trump 0, Hillary 0
In 1 instance above, Hillary gets a vote. In the other 2 instances, she doesn’t. Pretty simple stuff. ‘1’ does not equal ‘0’.
The headline seemed to indicate that if you are ‘#NeverTrump’, you are actually ‘#4Hillary’. Hashtag politics. Shallow...simple...and wrong...
Not voting when you could advances the ball for Hillary, or allows her to advance the ball. But, fret not, you will have retained your presumed purity even as America becomes a third world hell hole.
The math is more like:
If I vote for Trump - Trump 1, Hillary 0
If I vote for Hillary - Trump 0, Hillary 1
If I vote for neither - Trump 0, Hillary 1 uncontested vote
The point isn’t necessarily about who is voted for or not voting at all.
The point is that the #NeverTrump adherents are very vocal, though irrational and in some cases accomplished liars, and thus could turn some people off (LIV) from voting for Trump.
That would result in less votes for Trump even if the mindless followers don’t vote for Hillary either.
We all can learn from our mistakes, but it’s better not to make them in the first place.