The Democrats keep telling us that Donald Trump poses a unique threat to democracy and global stability, so that even if you are disagree with almost all of their policies, you should still vote for the Democratic nominee to keep Trump out of the White House.

I agree with them. I was prepared to vote for Biden. I will vote for Harris. I will do this despite the fact that Biden and Harris represent ideologies I find appalling and support policies that I believe will leave the world a considerably worse place. There are in fact a few Democrats I think are even more dangerous than Trump (I’m looking at you, Elizabeth Warren) but none of them seems to be in the running.

But although they’ve convinced me, I doubt that the Democrats have actually convinced themselves. Because if they have — if they really believe that Trump is such a unique threat that we have to put most of our disagreements about policy aside in order to stop him — they wouldn’t be nominating Harris, or any other Democrat. Instead, they’d be drafting Liz Cheney. (I might have said Nikki Haley, but I think that ship sailed when she addressed the Republican convention.)

Yes, the average Democrat would have to swallow very hard to support Cheney, just as I’ll have to swallow very hard to support Harris. The difference is that Cheney’s probably got a better chance of beating Trump. In a Cheney/Trump race, I’d wager that about 100% of Democrats and 25% of Republicans choose Cheney. That’s a landslide.

You might argue that it would be hard to get the Democratic base out to the polls for Cheney. But after a few months of hammering home the message that the imperative is to stop Trump, I don’t think you’d have more trouble selling Cheney to Democrats than you’d have selling Harris to me — and I am already sold.

I rarely agree with Democrats on political matters. This time around, we’re all on the same side. Let’s do what it takes to win. I will do my part by putting a whole lot of disagreements aside and voting for Harris if I have to. The Democratic National Committee can do its part by also putting a whole lot of disagreements aside and nominating someone with a far better chance of success. The only difference between me and the DNC is nobody cares what I do, but the DNC can make a difference, and maybe save the world. If they mean the things they say, that’s what they’ll do.