The deplorables might not associate themselves with non-Trump Republicans? Beautiful.
Indeed! Y'all can keep Jeb Bush's 2% of the Republican vote, and we'll get the rest in what is a far more prominent party. Best of both worlds.
You get to keep the dying, diseased third (it'll be gone within 10 years anyway) and we'll keep the rest. Perfect.
A permanent Democratic majority! Perfect.
I'd rather lose every election than either join with the Party of Bernie Bros or stand by the Alt Right.
Why not become an Independent?
I strongly believe in using your vote to help "form" the political discourse of a party (I'd feel like I wasn't helping to shape discourse on the sidelines as an independent), and I have ancestral reasons for wanting to register with the GOP and see it through to better days.