I see substantial damage being done to the Republican party. This Republican support for someone such as a Trump is very disturbing to me.
This, again, was a slope I knew the party was going to go down after evangelicals supported Romney. The party has degenerated over the last few decades.
I see four divisions in the party:
(1) Your racists and racially prejudiced folks who think they are somehow superior to the folks in the Democrat Party. They don't REALLY have political or morally conservative values. But they flock to the GOP because they believe it is the party of White people as much as folks believe the Democrat Party to be the party of Blacks. They are often on the short end of the stick as far as policies that favor them coming from the party. But they don't care as they still consider themselves better than the folks in the Democrat Party.
(2)Your fiscal conservatives who are not very nice people. They aren't necessarily Christians but like being identified with Christian values. They're the type who "grew up Christian" or have been a Christian "all their lives". They truly want smaller government that is less intrusive, other than fighting wars and enacting legislation that allows them to keep more of their guns and other stuff to leave for their kids and grandkids.
(3) Your liberal evangelicals who consider themselves to be morally conservative, but have developed a pragmatism that allows them to vote for the lesser of two evils, because they've rationalized that it's okay for Christians to support evil because they really don't want the "more evil" Democrats in charge.
(4)Your true conservative evangelicals who are anti-anything that goes against Christ, and would rather not vote than support that which is against Christ.
I think it's well past time that number 4 form its own party.
I have been contemplating going Independent for some time now since the past two Republican nominees that have been voted in. If the majority of registered Republicans think Trump is a good representative for them then I am going to have to reconsider this party. If this continues, I will be an Independent by fall.
I'm not sure that I'm a registered anything. But Rubio, Cruz, Trump and the others seem to think they know.
Stop sending me emails and stop knocking on my door. I got that house phone simply because it makes my bundle cheaper. They are crazy to keep calling it.
I think you've got a combination majority of 1, 2 and 3 that have taken over the party, and the combination simply does not represent the Christ I know.