I have a few conservative friends who are normally solid right-wingers and pretty level-headed, tell me that they would vote for Haley because she is less controversial and would get more done. However, when I ask them to explain their logic, they can't. I argue the points of what good Trump really did in his first term, and they fall back on their belief that it was congress who really did that, and it would happen regardless of who was president. So, I counter with "..so why don't you just re-elect Biden?" Their reply is to basically contradict their own argument, and say that we need a republican back in the white house. But, they finish by saying it just can't be Trump.
I don't get it. What is happening to these people? They sound like they are basically confused in their beliefs, and they just talk in circles trying to support their stance.
What you are describing is fear.
When folks act out of fear they get irrational.
What are they afraid of?
Imho they are denial of what has happened to the country in the past few years.
They think they can be “polite” and “compromise” with leftists.
We know that Ozzie and Harriet are dead—and those days are over.