"Electoral common sense for left-leaning voters has always been that it's far better to hold your nose and vote for a spineless centrist than to abstain and pave the way for a grasping fascist, but that only works if the centrist wins. If the old school approach can't meet the crucial moment we're at, if all holding our noses did was put us one step closer to a situation we can't vote our way out of, then that approach has to go"