Watching the Iowa caucus this year was a new experience for me. Before the ascendancy of Donald Trump, I was an establishment conservative, one of those liberal New England Republicans whose tribe is now only of blessed memory. The Iowa Republicans seemed a strange bunch who fell for candidates like Pat Robertson and Rick Santorum. The Iowa Democrats seemed irrelevant; I wasn’t going to vote for the person they elevated. I just ignored the whole thing.
That changed when I quit the GOP, became a charter member of the Never Trump movement, and committed to supporting the Democratic nominee in 2020. I have lashed myself to the party I once opposed, because Trump is a threat to the American system and its Constitution beyond any policy disagreement I could have with any current Democrat. (Not even Bernie Sanders can drive me away; I was one of his constituents for years, and I think he’d be a terrible president, but I will take him over Trump without a second thought.)
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