I declined to vote for him both times but honestly, even if I would've (as would've been the case in a 1 v1 or an RCV system) I would feel better about the vote than I did at election time. All the reasons I thought Biden would be a dumpster fire president have come true. It's boggled my mind how many of the NeverTrumpers - supposedly conservative and small government people - prioritized a person's personal behavior and antics over policy. And these people consider themselves the smart and "educated" ones. Their hatred of Trump led them to just become Democrats, it's been incredible to watch.
Most Never Trump people who are now democrats were more neocons than economically conservative . Keep in mind most of those people didn’t care much about the growth of government during the Bush years and thought the tea party/freedom caucus was way to ideological during the Obama years .
They mainly were republicans for foreign policy/national security reasons as keep in mind many of the original neo cons were democrats as well who became republicans during the 1970s after the McGovern nomination and especially during the Carter years cause democrats moved hard left on that issue during the 1970s .
Remember this showed up in the 2008 GOP primary too when while those people didn’t like Huckabee, they absolutely despised Ron Paul and on foreign policy the GOP philosophically has moved in the more Ron Paul direction over the past 5 years as well .
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