Just spoke to another Trumphumper who won't be voting in November
Here's another anecdotal story of a formerly rabid trump supporter who's planning to stay home this voting cycle.
The guy, whose actual name is White, is childhood friend of my spouse. (They grew up in an entirely white, conservative, private community in the northeast. My spouse is one of the few liberals from that area.) In 2016, Mr. White was completely over-the-the top about trump. Literally every social media exchange from him ended with "Trump 2016!". Over the past 4 years, this public cheerleading has steadily ratcheted down.
Yesterday the two old friends spoke on the phone for over an hour. White's words were heartening: "Trump is a liar, everybody knows it", he said. He lamented that "all politicians are the same", and that he'd hoped that as an "outsider", trump would be different.
Now, stopping short of calling trump out for being the corrupt monster that he is, it was clear that he's disappointed in his former champion's performance. When asked how he'd vote in November, he replied "I guess I'll probably just skip the elections this time".
Every little bit helps!
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Lying ASSFACE, Monster Fuck. So there is that.
Interestingly written, flibbitygiblets.. Mahalo!
I was a country boy. And I remember when I was dared to do just that.
DANGNABBIT (country christian for goddamn it), I certainly learned MY lesson. 
We keep forgetting that back in 2016 a lot of last-minute uncommitted voters went eeny meeny miney moe and voted for Chump with their eyes closed. Their eyes aren't closed any more, and those voters never drank the Kool-Ade. They can see what a disaster Chump is, and they'll never be fooled again. At least some of those voters will stay home, the rest will go to the polls and vote Chump out.
Maybe they'll never join our Party, and that's OK. We still need their help to get rid of OrangeAnus.
...you can hope for, at least in the short term.
My very right-wing fundie sister surprised me by finally saying she'd had enough of Trump. Of all the things that could have opened her eyes up, it was apparently the way Trump was cheering on the anti-shutdown protesters.
I wouldn't be surprised if her granddaughter (my great niece) had something to do with that -- she's a five-year old who, just in the past few weeks, has been declared free from cancer ( 
) after an awful year-long struggle with Stage 4 cancer. I'll bet my sister was worried about her granddaughter getting infected while she was so weak and struggling with chemo.
Although my sister certainly hadn't been loudly crowing about Trump all that much recently, just a few weeks before she told me she'd given up on Trump, in one of the very few political arguments I've let myself get into with her, she was still going out of her way to defend even the idiocy of Trump's bleach injection comments.
Now she's saying she'll vote independent, and went into "a pox on both of their houses" mode about Democrats and Republicans. I behaved myself, graciously accepted what she was saying, didn't gloat or do any I-told-ya-sos, figured I'd count one less vote in Ohio for Trump as blessing enough for now, and not push my luck.
