"lesser evilist" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1949, Anvil and Student Partisan - Volumes 1-5, page 6:",
          "text": "When does a \"lesser evilist\" begin to fight for the greatest good, i.e., socialism?",
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          "ref": "1974, Philip Nobile, Intellectual Skywriting, page 138:",
          "text": "Harrington, forty-five, is a lesser evilist who could have voted in good conscience for regular Democrat Henry \"Scoop\" Jackson over both Nixon and a splinter peace candidate if the occasion had arisen.",
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          "ref": "1997, Susan Weissman, The Ideas of Victor Serge: A Life as a Work of Art, page 114:",
          "text": "Yet this failure does not adequately account for Serge's general migration from a Trotskyist to a \"Third Camp\" socialist to a non-revolutionary \"lesser evilist.\"",
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        "A proponent of lesser evilism."
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