This idea that the only way a citizen can disagree what their government is doing is by voting on election day needs to die.

I would guess that if you polled voters on election Day, and asked them why they voted for Trump, science funding wouldn't even come up as a topic. They would probably talk about high prices, or criminal aliens, or how they didn't like Harris.

Were they? I thought they also voted for the "No new wars" guys. Oh wait