Party uber Alles 0
Some Democrats are fond of saying that, if Ronald Reagan were alive today, he would be drummed out of party. What follows would seem to indicate that there is more to that statement than partisan hyperbole:
A while ago, Doug Elmets, adviser to Reagan and many other Republicans through the years, announced that he could not bring himself to vote for Donald Trump, but instead, would be voting for a Democratic Presidential candidate for the first time in his life. He finds himself dismayed at Republican reaction to his statement. Here’s a bit:
But apparently some Americans – including some Republicans I call friends – equate political independence with unthinkable heresy. They’d rather cling to the party line and hand the Oval Office to a petulant, dangerously unbalanced reality TV star than support a Democrat.
More reactionary reaction at the link.