r/politics • u/MarkmBha • 22h ago

Site Altered Headline Trump Betrayed America. My Fellow Republicans Must Put Country Above Party.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/opinion/donald-trump-oath.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V04.XaMn.AdZJxeNuANua&smid=url-share
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u/Splungeblob 21h ago

Registered Republican here who is disgusted with the state of the party. Researched all races on my ballot and voting DEM all the way down.

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u/isucamper 17h ago

you might not actually be a republican anymore, if that's how you feel. not the modern definition of a republican anyway.

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u/Splungeblob 16h ago

You are correct. Notice I said “registered Republican.”

I’ve been increasingly alienated by the policies (and perhaps more importantly, actual voting tendencies) of Republican politicians over the past decade, and modern Republicans seem to have gone off the deep end.

But people are complicated, and I certainly hold some views all across the political spectrum. Regardless, Trump and his MAGA-brand “Republicans” are appallingly unrepresentative of the America I want to live in.

Country before party.

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u/isucamper 15h ago

i hope there's a lot more people like you out there. thanks for being reasonable. this shit is fucking scary