As much as that has to feel good, it also removes your opportunity to at least TRY to stop the bleeding.
As a registered Republican my first vote as a Texan was for Cruz in the preliminaries (when he “didn’t have a chance”).
But if it is cleansing then more power to you.
When it comes to voting, at least in a closed primary it will.
There are like 50 3rd parties, none will ever achieve squat in our system. The last election cycle we were inundated here on FR with all the people that were going to make the Constitution Party relevant. How'd that work out? Hint: the completely irrelevant Green party got 4 times the votes as the Constitution Party did.
“Voters in the state of Texas do not have to publicly identify themselves as a member of a political party when they register to vote. When they go to the polls they can freely choose either the Republican ticket or the Democratic ticket.
However, voters cannot vote across party lines. Once a person chooses the ticket they will vote on they can only decide between candidates of that party. Voters in Texas receive a new voter registration card every year so they don’t have to vote on the same ticket each primary election.”