But again, that ballot is an absurd reality to contemplate.

So was the idea of a President Trump, at one time.

The point of the thought experiment is to focus on how important partisan control of the Executive is - and especially things like SCOTUS appointments that can have an effect for generations - if your values and preferences accord with those of the major party alignments. So that you can imagine what a member of the Democratic base might do if they were faced with an absurd reality on their side of the ballot.

For someone in the base of the GOP, they probably believe that the Trump years were good for the country - even taking the bad with the good - just based on the seismic change that he enabled in the Supreme Court. And that person is probably right, from their perspective. That doesn't mean they like the bad consequences of his Presidency, just that having Trump being President made the country better (for their definition of better) than if a Democrat had won.

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