CallMeMaybe wrote:
Has anyone here renounced their affiliation with the GOP in the last year? I’d like to know details— even just basic: how, when, why. No judging, I promise. I switched my party affiliation to Dem last week after being a registered Repub in Florida for the past twenty years.
I was never a Trump supporter (voted Clinton in 2016 and Biden in 2020), but I generally voted R down the ballot every election.
Up until 2016, I thought that the Republicans were the party of the grownups: Rational, had integrity, and had the US's best interests in mind. But after Trump got elected and the party leaders began to sidle up to him (if not outright pledge their fealty to him), it was obvious what the party's true intentions had become: Maintain power.
I don't have time to write up or articulate all that the Republicans will have to do to earn my respect and affiliation again, but in a nutshell:
1) Leave no room for interpretation that the party will no longer make QAnon or white supremacist groups have a home with a major political party.
2) Stop trying to disenfranchise minority voters. It may cost the party over the next couple of elections, but take control of the message and let it be known that voting rights for all Americans is a high priority.
3) Stop cozying up to evangelicals to push this narrative that the Rs are the party of values, honor, integrity, etc.
4) Either be about fiscal responsibility or shut the fuck up it.
5) Do some serious soul searching and figure out why half the country doesn't care what Republicans have to say anymore.