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A lot of people still have trust in the courts. They hear conservative media saying “these are just left wing accusations,” and don’t think he has done anything wrong.

However, now that he has a conviction, a growing number of people are leaving him because they courts are infallible (to them).

I know it’s wishful thinking to think he will get jail time in July, or that he will get any other conviction before November.

But once you’re a felon, you’re a felon. And he’s a felon 34 times.

I know a registered Republican who has never voted for the Republican candidate in the general election.

She says she agrees with the concept of fiscal conservativism, but every candidate she votes for in the primaries always loses to some intolerable asshat. Except she did like McCain, but she liked Obama even better.

Trump pushed her so far as to donate to the Democrats, but she is still registered Republican.

I know another registered Republican who did vote Republican back in the 80s, but at least says he hasn't recently, similar reasons. He stays Republican mainly because he doesn't see any point in bothering to change. Where he lives is die hard red so he knows the Republican primaries are his only chance to influence any candidate as even if he likes a Democrat, they will automatically lose. He votes Democrat in the general, but considers participating in the Republican primaries his best shot at mitigating the bad of the modern Republican party.

I'm registered as a Republican to vote in their primaries. In general, I can live with whoever the Democrats put up, I may not love them, they may not be my first, second, or even third choice of candidates, but they're OK enough. They kind of mostly fall on a spectrum from "meh" to "pretty good."

Republicans, on the other hand, fall on a spectrum from "outright evil fascist psychopaths" to "meh," and I'd like to try to head off the worst of them before they get to the general election.

With the way Republicans have been going for the last few decades (fielding very few "meh" candidates in the first place and electing even fewer while skewing further and further into crazytown) it's going to be a cold day in hell before I vote for one in a general election, but I'll try to pick the least bad one in the primary so hopefully it comes down to a contest of "meh#1" vs "meh#2" (or, dare I dream, "meh1" vs "pretty good") since roughly half the country is going to vote for whoever has an "R" next to their name, might as well try to leave them with the least offensive R possible.

Ideally I'd like to push the Republicans to occupy pretty much the same space the Democrats do currently and have the Democrats move further left. In pretty much any other halfway functional democracy, our Dems would be considered a conservative party.

There's a handful of Republican talking points I could kind of get behind if they weren't using them as covers for their personal greed, racism, religious fundamentalism, etc. but at best the things I would otherwise tend to agree with them on over the Democrats are only paid lip service at best, more often they outright work against them, and very often they take the absolute craziest possible interpretation of one of their supposed ideals and run straight off the deep end with it.