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[Image Description: Anakin Skywalker on Lava Planet, block-face text "If you're not with me, then you're my enemy"]
This but unironically. Do you need me to explain how elections work in this country?
Do you unironically believe Martin Luther King Jr. wanted Barry Goldwater to win when he increased his civil rights protest organizing in defiance of Lyndon B Johnson during the lead up to the 1964 presidential election?
Not exactly, but the outcome can be similar.