WE ARE NOT SO VERY DIFFERENT, YOU AND I.

This being the week before the election, there's a lot of garbage being written, and someone may beat this entry by John Ellis of PJ Media, but he's set a high bar. Ellis affirms he's NeverTrump, but does not allude to the reason, which he spelled out in a recent column: He suspects Trump of trying to throw the election to  Clinton ("Here's a conspiracy theory for you: Donald Trump entered the 2016 presidential race at the behest of his good buddy Bill Clinton. If that's true, Trump is serving his friends the Clintons well because almost everything that he does seems to be in order to help Hillary get elected…").

But let that pass. Now Ellis is back to tell us that the "squabble" within his movement just shows how pure it is, because it "reveals a desire to protect the integrity of the conservative movement." He apparently is not referring to Nazi frogs and neo-Confederates, but to Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and all the other guys who denounced Trump as a special menace and then endorsed him -- which is noble, not craven as it looks, because

...many of the Republicans who are planning on voting for Donald Trump next week are planning to do so with their noses firmly plugged and with a deep sense of regret about what might have been. Many who disagree with my #NeverTrump position agree with my assessment of Trump's lack of competency and virtue. Outside of the shrill voices of the alt-right, very few conservatives who are planning on voting for Trump are attempting to put lipstick on their pig. And that's the way they see it—Donald Trump is most definitely a pig, but he's their pig and they'd rather have their pig in power than the other side's pig.

Thaaaaat's an interesting definition of integrity.

...Thankfully, many Republicans continue to retain their integrity even as they prepare to vote for one of the two worst candidates for president in American history. Over and over, I see an acknowledgment of Trump's vileness even while calling for people to embrace the "lesser of two evils" arguments.

I must have missed the director's cut of Cruz's "vote for this scumbag" speech.

Democrats, however, can't embrace that argument because they refuse to acknowledge that their candidate is evil.

This has got to be the saddest version of the "at least I admit it" tropes since the Joker told Batman he completes him. Five more days! And the goodbad news is they'll never get less crazy.