Daas Torah, meet critical thinking. Why bother thinking at all if there’s someone who can do it for you? Hey, lets just toss bechira chofshis out the window. That is, if it is permissible to open the window.
There is a difference between guidance and direction. Everyone who has a question or a doubt should seek guidance from their Rov or the leader they look up to. I am not of the opinion that everyone should abdicate their responsibility to use their own wits -and the Torah education their parents and earlier generations of gedolim struggled to give them- to let someone else think for them.
I’ve got no skin in this particular political game, I don’t even live in the same country, but it seems to me that there are always going to be things done, endorsed, or allowed by governments and candidates that violate a halachic world view. Some ( not me, BTW) might consider killing people in Iraq or Afghanistan as cold blooded murder done on your cheshbon as a citizen. Others may look at Obamacare as gezeilah. Others will look at child protection services as gneivas nefoshos. Still more may look at the fact that Wiccans or Mormons are allowed to practice their religion freely as enabling avodoh zoroh. Havent seen any letters about those issues. Wondering why.
But if one can get their head around governments or candidates enabling or endorsing murder, kidnapping, theft, and idol worship without issuing letters of halachic direction, I suppose they should be able to get their heads around toeivah too.
At least, that’s what critical thinking tells a logical person. If one is going to abdicate their thought and choice to someone else, the least they can expect is consistency.