This kind of rhetorical trick is so imprecise it's wild (but not really) to see it coming from a "journalist".

Like it's all they have left too, just endless "well if A1 were B and A2 were Z, of course you have to choose A1"

You have to choose between Hitler and Hitler, but imagine if I told you one of the Hitlers is like a bagel with cream cheese that you like but don't love, and the other Hitler is a thousand billion razor blades covered in the bubonic plague, obviously you'd have to choose Hitler

Triden is Voldemort but Bump is Umbridge, neither choice is ideal but anyone who isn't a fascist has to vote for Bridemp

I'm going to steal your choice of either 20 nickels or 10 dimes from you, but what if the 20 nickels were actually a billion dollars and the 10 dimes were only 7 dimes??????