I get it. If your options are to either 1). vote for Trump or 2) vote for someone else (who is not named Sanders or Warren), you will be unhappy either way.

But is your degree of unhappiness equivalent? Would you just as upset having Trump from 2021-2025 as you would having a non-Sanders/Warren 2021-2025?

Is the reasoning strictly principled? You said you live in DC, so ultimately your vote for president isn't likely to swing things. But lets say you lived a state like Wisconsin where margins could be razor thin. Would you be more pragmatic (assuming you have an extremely strong distaste for Trump and less so for others)?

Would you encourage others to vote like you?