An immoral third candidate defeats the case for voting outside of the lesser of two evils

Amid the lowest voter turnout in two decades, Donald Trump won the White House. His victory was brought about by 80,000 voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. He won those last two with fewer votes than were cast for Barack Obama in 2012, and he won the latter with fewer votes than Mitt Romney received in the course of losing those states.

Both Trump and Clinton faced their own bevy of allegations of corruption and concealing or committing sexual misconduct. Voters, asked to choose between the lesser of two evils, either stayed home or joined the most expansive third party electorate in recent history.