Very well argued points. I was always queasy about George W. Bush because of his leftist stances on education and especially on immigration. Voting for a centrist Republican candidate is about one step better than voting for a Democrat. Their premise seems to be vote for us because we can make government more efficient. The old adage that a government that governs best is one that governs least, and a moderate Republican simply will not follow that prescription. Hard choices have to be made if this nation is to survive into the future. I know Trump is no conservative but was he part of the quagmire in DC that created this mess. We’ve been burned by Republican politicians with all their empty promises of conservative governance and all we’ve gotten with our votes is a Republican Party that is more or less a carbon copy of the Democratic Party. We’ve wasted our votes long enough, and the GOP is one or two election cycles from being tossed to political oblivion.
But whatever motivator compels the vote, I`d say fear mostly, they then willingly, hell, even aggressively fight to stay there.
But make no mistake, they are on a plantation, no less than rat voters.
This selective blindness to the progressives in their party then frees their Crat overlords to bend them over at will while they say, metaphorically speaking (from Animal House) 'Thank you sir, may I have another!'.