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“I don’t particularly like Donald Trump; I just voted for him because I really didn’t like the alternative.” That’s a comment that I feel like I hear on a nearly weekly basis in various environments. It’s usually during the Q&A portion of a talk about my newest book—The Vanishing Church. I totally understand what that person is trying to articulate, by the way: American electoral politics is a “this or that” phenomenon. If your disdain for Candidate A is an 8/10 and it’s a 7/10 for Candidate B, then the second person is probably going to begrudgingly get your vote when you walk into the voting booth. It’s just the nature of our “winner-take-all” system.