A few loud Bernie or Bust voices have been raised in favor of voting for Trump rather than Biden. Of course Trump salivates at the possibility. One might wonder at the self defeating logic, but there is a logic, and it’s unsettling. It comes in two related versions, at least as far as I can tell.
The first envisions that four more years of Trump will be so disastrous the people will rise up in revolt: think of Paris in the summer of 1848. It’s a Bizarro World liberal form of tea party politics. Although its adherents claim they’re in it for the good of the people, the emotionally driven self centered selfishness of the claim, and their unwillingness to negotiate, suggests otherwise.
The second, like the first, is also a form of tea party politics revealing an affection for authoritarianism, and distrust of representative democracy. Like tea partiers, they also revel in conspiracies about who really owns and controls the representatives. They correctly understand that representative democratic processes, free of tea party intransigence, are unlikely to agree whole hog to their agenda. Representatives will take parts of it, adjust them for current conditions, and enact something workable if not fully adequate. It’s messy, but it’s the way of representative democracy. If they can’t have an authoritarian socialist as president, they’ll take an authoritarian fascist. At least it will give them a sense of certainty that democracy is unable to provide,and an opportunity to be smug about what’s happening to the country.