Binarists, even the best of them, almost always end up telling you that you have to cast your vote as though you were in an extremely contrived hypothetical situation: one in which the outcome of the election depends on you and yet you cannot use this awesome power to elevate a McMullin or a Stein to the presidency. Or they end up tying themselves up in knots, as in this essay arguing that not voting for Trump is tantamount to voting for Clinton while somehow "a vote for Donald Trump is not necessarily a vote for Donald Trump himself."