My family was Republican for generations on both sides. I campaigned for Richard Nixon when I was 10 years old, and was heartbroken when he lost. I didn’t really understand politics at the time, it was really kind of like being sad because your football team lost. But everybody in my family left the Republican Party during the Clinton impeachment. we generally feel that Eisenhower was the last good Republican. if you want to see where I am literally coming from, take a look at this movie. It was based on a book my father wrote and he is interviewed in it.

! https://watch.amazon.com/detail?gti=amzn1.dv.gti.aaa9f6fb-5fbd-ef78-4212-f92206f1d1e6&territory=US&ref_=share_ios_movie&r=web

it’s not available on Amazon anymore, for some reason, perhaps because the Director ended up whoring himself shamelessly for Trump. He made some good documentaries, and I used to like him.

Now that the party has been hijacked by Trump, you can’t really refer to Trump supporters as a subset of the party. However, I do make a distinction between the rank-and-file who often vote Republican, and the politicians who are conning them. I also realize that there are loonies on the left who provide enough straw to enable Republican thugs to make straw-man scarecrows. These are used to scare otherwise sensible people into overlooking the horror that the Republican party has become. Part of why I write is to contribute in some small way to trimming back on these leftist excesses, and to clarify the truths that prompted them. talking to people like you — A guy in the middle who just wants to figure out what the truth is as best he can — — is one way I do that.