re: "And in the process, claiming his hands are clean."
What you're saying is that in an election narrowed down to Hitler and Stalin, you'd actually vote for one of them.
Which one really gets your heart going pitter-patter, clo? The socialist Hitler, or the communist Stalin???
When there are good candidates to vote for, it's unethical to vote for bad ones.

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