…it’d be nice if these folks who have their epiphany actually stay republican, and use their position to instigate some critically needed reform. It doesn’t actually have to be the party of regressivism, hatred, and bigotry. Granted, remove those things (and the feel-good wrapping paper they use to package those things) and there’s not a whole lot left to work with… but if you can find even a few gems to pick out of the sewage, that’s enough to campaign on. Build something new from there. Call out your extremist peers for what they are and save your fucking party.
…it’d be nice if these folks who have their epiphany actually stay republican, and use their position to instigate some critically needed reform. It doesn’t actually have to be the party of regressivism, hatred, and bigotry. Granted, remove those things (and the feel-good wrapping paper they use to package those things) and there’s not a whole lot left to work with… but if you can find even a few gems to pick out of the sewage, that’s enough to campaign on. Build something new from there. Call out your extremist peers for what they are and save your fucking party.
Arnold Schwarzenegger stayed republican, didn’t sway the maga base one bit.
I think that’d turn out roughly as successfully as trying to change the police from the inside. They’re just going to make you go away.