You’re in good company, DJ was a Jr. dem IIRC until he came to his senses, though he didn’t work for them.
I of course am pure as the driven snow which is AGAIN falling in bleak and FROZEN Chi. My mom got “Human Events”, “National Review”, “The Washington Times”, “The Weekly Standard”, “The American Spectator” ect when I was a kid and I read them all.
Ironically some of those became Bolshevik rags.
You knew I was on the dark side.
I rode the Peace Train with Linda Ronstadt and Tom Hayden from Boston to Nashua NH in Jan ‘80. To campaign for Moonbeam.
I met Miss Lillian and snuck over to Reagan headquarters to make calls.
I remember Bangor ‘80 caucus ... some loud guy roaming and ranting “are you ready for Teddy?”. Not many were.
Part of that was trying to appease my moonbat grandmother. She had me so misled that I thought Reagan would lose in a landslide in 1984. When he didn’t, it began to cause me to reevaluate reality. I wouldn’t “officially” become a Republican until 1986. Of course, I’ve been an independent Constitutional Conservative since 1998 (I won’t vote GOP if the candidate is clearly sabotaging the Conservative cause). ;-)