Erick Erickson

“we never get better candidates. We get more corrupt and more terrible ones, and we are told once again that we must vote for them or the republic will fall ... The doomsday prophecies are simply how the parties dupe voters into holding their noses for their preferred perversions.”

Erick Erickson · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-05

Erick Erickson argues that parties use doomsday rhetoric to pressure voters into supporting increasingly corrupt candidates.

“Both sides serve up a crap sandwich of a candidate, point across the aisle at the other side’s crap sandwich, and insist you have to eat theirs because the other one is worse.”

Erick Erickson · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-05

Erick Erickson criticized both Democrats and Republicans for offering poor candidates and pressuring voters to choose the lesser evil.