I was expecting pushback from liberals after Harper’s published my essay “Nothing Left.” But Michelle Goldberg’s characterization of my position over at the Nation as “electoral nihilism” is totally out-to-lunch.

There’s a vast gulf between “elections don’t matter” and “shut up and lineup behind this season’s Democrat.”

For the record, I don’t argue for backing third party candidacies, which as a rule are quixotic by definition, and I agree with Goldberg that in any given election it’s overwhelmingly likely to be true that the only realistic choice is to vote for whichever Democrat is running. So her beef on that score is with someone else, not me.