Agree. The nomination of Bob Dole was why I dropped the republican party and registered as an independent. It doesn’t allowed me to vote in primaries, unless the state is a ranked choice voting state which I don’t live in, but without a valid third party choice it hasn’t mattered where I live.
That was the year my Clue arrived, also.
UniParty was born with Ford and my clue to the “new look” arrived with Dole.