In defense of protest votes

Published May 30, 2024 5:08pm ET



I am thoroughly unconvinced by the arguments to vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and I won’t vote for him, but I’m just as unconvinced by the standard argument against voting for him.

Liberal New York Times columnist Gail Collins makes a noble 2024 stab at the age-old argument that it’s somehow an abdication of responsibility to vote for anyone not nominated by one of the two major parties.

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