‘Hillary was right’: Lifelong GOP voter on why he is leaving party

Well, you know, you’ve voted the Republican ticket most of your life, usually a straight party ticket. Now you’ve said that you had it with both parties. What changed so much for you? Well, you know, politics was something that that for the majority of my life just didn’t permeate every aspect of it like it does now. I mean it’s just injected into everything that we do. So you know, I remember when Republicans and Democrats, the biggest thing they used to argue about was the budget. And now it’s, you know, from the beer you drink to the stores that you shop at and so forth. And it all it all has political implications. So coming up through that, through life and voting straight ticket Republican was something I did more or less out of. You know, I thought it was my patriotic duty if anything else, and. Coming into 2016, when Donald Trump was running. My vote for Trump wasn’t so much a vote in support of him as it was a vote against Hillary, if you will. She didn’t have anything to offer that necessarily appealed to me. I felt the election was hers to lose, and the whole thing seemed to be at least pretty much sewn up as far as everybody thought, including her. And I was very shocked to learn the next day that he had actually won when I really didn’t think that he would. The issue, suffice to say, were things I just never really paid attention to. I don’t want. I want to hear what you have to say about that, but now I’m curious about the. Have you had an evolution of thought as it relates to Hillary Clinton now in the wake of all of this? Yes, yes, absolutely. And Irene of it is, she was absolutely right. She was absolutely right about everything that she said, although I didn’t necessarily pay too much attention to the things that she said going back. Hindsight’s very clear, very clear.