Democrats and Left Leaning Posters: If National GOP was more like the Atlas GOP

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

0=0, so no difference.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

It's tough to imagine a plausible scenario where I'd vote for a Republican.

Theoretically it could happen in a race like for DA where the Democrat was like a conservadem or die hard drug warrior against a sincere reformist Republican. However that's increasingly unlikely now as the Democrats en masse have moved away from "tough on crime" policies
 Libertas actually had a great post series where he covered the Staten Island DA race supporting the Republican and making a pretty good case that the Republican was the more progressive choice (voting for her on a third party line), but I can't see those dynamics being replicated where I live.

Theoretically it could happen if you had an actual moderation Republican (and I don't mean "party line on most things but pro-choice and supporting some gun control measures" Ron Kirk/Susan Collins style "moderate") against one of the worst examples of the "activist left" (I'm thinking along the lines of Saira Rao or one of those #StandWithMaduro types here) but that too is a pretty contrived scenario and much like imagining a pro-choice Republican vs. a pro-life Democrat, it's theoretically possible and easy to imagine but just so difficult to actually see occurring.

If you also had a legitimately moderate Republican vs. one of those utopian leftist types who like to run for municipal office and push totally unworkable policies or ones that sound good on paper but are proven to be bad in practice such as rent control, I might also consider it, or even such a Republican vs. a Bill De Blasio or Rahm Emanuel type Democrat, but no serious contender would ever run for municipal office in Minneapolis as a Republican. A race between those two types is plausible though and would be an utter nightmare, thankfully my last City Council election pitted my very progressive and very sane incumbent against someone who managed to combine both the worst elements of the "activist left" AND NIMBY style municipal conservative policies along with even some Alex Jones-style fearmongering about "globalists", it's like an experiment to create the most unappealing candidate possible...easy vote.