Ravee from Arlington, VA
As a lifelong right-leaning moderate, this election has woken me up to some real truths about oft-repeated Republican mantras over the past few decades. All the talk about tax cuts and smaller government have really not benefited the voters who have unquestioningly supported the Republican party since Nixon's "silent majority" and Reagan's so-called "Reagan Democrats". The Republican party offers not a whit of new ideas to deal with the effects of globalization on the lower and middle class, and it offers no solutions at all really. It repeats as dogma and ideology the unproven tenets about lower taxes and smaller government and keeps harping about individual freedom and liberty, all the while dog-whistling racist and gender stereotypes and to what end? I am thoroughly disgusted with the Republican party and cannot see myself voting for any of its candidates any time soon. Where are the Bill Welds and Jack Kemps of this party? Where has its logic, reason, and science gone? Sad.
Cannot vote for any Republican candidate. They seem to be either demagogic or ideologic.