#ILeftTheGOP hashtag trending on Twitter...

Here is the link to the article that provided the links to the tweets in question.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...e-party_n_5e2f62d2c5b6d34ea103dd04?ri18n=true

There have been a number of threads about people leaving the Democratic Party but this is the first time I have seen something of this nature. I am going to provide the primary link and then pick out some of the comments from the twitter thread because I think that they paint a picture that is worthwhile taking a look at.

Perhaps the most poignant comment was this response right at the beginning of the thread;

https://twitter.com/CheriJacobus/status/1221641664445456384

So when you read the reasons given below as to why #ILeftTheGOP try to imagine what the answer to the hypothetical question above would have to be.

All of these people are former Republicans and all have the potential to return and vote for the GOP in 2020.

So will the GOP make the changes necessary to win back the votes of their former members?

Let's look at the reasons why #ILeftTheGOP and decide for ourselves.

There are thousands more similar posts with different points in time when they reached their limits of being able to ignore what the GOP has become.

Unlike the "walk away" the #ILeftTheGOP reasons go back 2 decades so this attrition is essentially an ONGOING drain on the party itself.

It does explain the growth of the Independents and if there is a central theme it is one of disgust that the GOP has abandoned all of the principles and values it once boasted about upholding.

There was and is no dramatic rush for the GOP exits but the question as to what would bring these people back to the party is the focus of the OP.

Please provide your own thoughts and reasons why you believe that the GOP has reasons that these former members should once again embrace the party.

TYIA

 

I forgot to mention that there are a great many PF Members who are former Republicans so they might want to share their own reasons for leaving and what it would take for them to rejoin the GOP.

 

I think that the GOP (as it existed Pre-2016) might be gone forever.

And, if Trump is Re-Elected, there will be Zero Chance to turn things around (for the GOP}.

It is tragic that men of character (and integrity) like Romney, Kasich, and the Late John McCain have been marginalized.

 

The group that puzzles me most are the evangelicals. How THEY can buy into Trumps bulldust is beyond me

 

They must figure it is All About the S. Court?

A "Faustian Bargain" as it were.

 

What gets me is that not one of them can articulate WHY getting control of the courts is so important. I know for some it is about abortion and guns but they have been sold a pup on both of those. Framing an abortion legislation that does not raise the maternal and infant mortality is problematic and is NOT accepted by most women

 

What exists today would be unrecognizable to people like St Reagan.

The former members are the ones who upheld the values and principles and they took those with them when they left.

 

So true.

Ronnie is probably spinning in his grave.

 

Great point.

I really think that the Christian RW (no matter how unrealistic) actually thinks that there is a chance to overrule Roe.

So they vote accordingly.

 

Perhaps a little history can put it into perspective. There was a time when not a single politician on either side of the aisle wanted to touch the abortion issue. Then along came the (im)moral majority of Pat Robertson and it went downhill from there. Over time they replaced the sane politicians with the "litmus test" of abortion only to discover that they could never get Congress to pass a ban on abortion. So they tried passing laws in the states that they controlled to overturn RvW but the SCOTUS stymied them up till now. What is currently before the court is another direct challenge to RvW and if the ruling comes down in their favor before the election it will have a major impact on the election.

BTW some of the comments in the twitter feed mentioned the focus on abortion as a reason for leaving the GOP.

Those opposed to abortion don't care about maternal and infant mortality or women't rights. There are former GOP members who consider that unacceptable.

 

#ILeftTheGOP hashtag trending on Twitter...

Wow, nearly every tweet for leaving the GOP was Trump’s nomination/election. Well, I suppose if one’s dedication to a national cause can be completely influenced by the premise of only one person then I must question that one’s dedication in the first place. Sounds to me like we could go back on twitter accounts to 2008 and view many #LeavingtheDNC

 

In which case you might get lucky and have some of them return for 2020 if the GOP Senate upholds their Oath to the Constitution and removes your criminal IMPOTUS from office.

You do want them back, right?

 

Is it so surprising, though? Trump is cut from the same cloth as shady faith healers and televangelists who prance around in $900 suits to sell holy water.

 

If you left the GOP over abortion, pretenses to morality are at best laughable and pathetic at worst. NOW's strident pronunciation that abortion on demand is supported by 80% of the country is entirely fiction. People's actual beliefs regarding abortion are far more nuanced than that. If you actually look at the data, most people would cheerfully limit abortion to rape incest and the mother's physical health, mental health adds even more and that by the way was the consensus position before Roe v Wade.

 

Good point!

The inverse is also true that those who are gullible enough to be suckered by shady televangelists are also prone to be suckered by shysters like the criminal IMPOTUS.

A match made in...

 

Sorry televangelist represent at most 5% of the Christian community and most of them are absolutely awful from a theological perspective.

 

I left the GOP. I still support Trump and gun rights and individualism and free market, just not as a Republican (though certainly still as a republican).

 

Thank you!

What were your reasons to no longer be affiliated with the GOP itself and what would have to change in order for you to return?

 

I left due to the rule of the party by Neocon RINO Trotskyites and their football obsessed couch potato constituents who consider the extent of their civic duty to just vote for anything with an R.

I wont likely ever come back. Partys are no good.

 

Lol Twitter.

The website you get banned from if you call someone an npc or tell a "journalist" learn to code.

Twitter is an echo chamber for the far left.

 

Between him and the people who what to throw up in the borders for anybody and everybody to come. I don't think it would matter if he worships Satan.

Evangelicals like most other people don't want to be taxed into Oblivion and they don't want their country invaded by foreigners.

 

Damn if that isn't the truth! Lol

#ILefttheDNC is also being talked about a lot on Twitter right now, but do you think it will trend? Spoiler alert, no!

 

Yeah it's really funny. I doubt anybody claiming it ever was part of the GOP.

 

Interesting!

As an Independent the GOP appears to have shunned the RINO's and those who are now tweeting about why #ILeftTheGOP would have been the RINO's.

But you seem to be saying that the extremists who have taken over the GOP are also RINO's.

Perhaps there is more than one definition of RINO.

 

The funny part is these people think the aptly named Twitterverse is real. I wouldn't be surprised to find that 2/3 of tweeters aren't even real people.