I agree with Vosem's analysis here. My personal write-in, though, is the conservative Catholic "BUT ABORTION" deflection from Trump's immigration/environmental/welfare/labor/(etc. etc. etc.) policies--not because it's a uniquely inane or irrelevant point to bring up, but because it's had a uniquely toxic effect on environments and movements about which I care deeply.
I of course agree that the focus on abortion above all of Trump’s egregious actions is ridiculous, but if one truly views abortion as murder, then you can understand why they might ignore all other issues as paling in comparison to abortion in terms of significance.
I'm not disputing that; I know people who voted for Trump for that reason and I don't think less of them for it (or, at least, not as much less as I think of other Trump voters). But there is a current in the American Church that has been overtly colonized by Gamergate, the alt-right, QAnon, and MAGA--Frank Pavone retweeting Proud Boy slogans, Abby Johnson in the Capitol mob, Bishop Strickland going full anti-vaxxer and speaking at the Jericho March, that one priest in Wisconsin justifying lynching in his homilies about how it's a sin to believe in systemic racism, etc. etc.--and using "BUT ABORTION" to deflect from
that is an entirely different beast to using it to justify an unenthusiastic, lesser-evil Trump vote.
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