[macintux]

I've run for office (as a placeholder) as a Libertarian. I've voted Republican at times, although I definitely lean liberal.

I'll never vote Republican again, at least not until the party faces down its demons and returns to some semblance of sanity.

Trump could have easily subverted the Democratic party instead of Republican, and if the Dems had gone down the same path, I'd be saying the same thing about them.

[pstuart]

I left the Democratic party in disgust at the turn of the century. I vote blue because a 2-party system forces me to, but I have no respect for Dem leadership.

I don't think Trump could have done the same thing in the Democratic party: he leveraged decades of hate speech and Fox news that created an electorate driven by hate and anger and he saw the opportunity and took it (noting he could shoot somebody on 5th Ave and not lose a vote)