For the longest time I voted straight republican as a protest vote against the democrats for being arrogant elitist pricks. Trump really did feel like he would fuck shit up in both establishment parties, so it was like a godsend in the context of 2016 - 2020. At the time it felt like, if the democrats weren't going to learn their lesson to stop living in a feel-good coastal bubble from Trump, then maybe the chaos being caused in the republican party could reshape it away from sucking corporate cock and start filling the hole of labor and muckraking action dems abdicated in the 2000s for Obama limousine liberalism.

The only thing that's happened was the absolute worst elements of cuckservative establishment and shitheaded reactionary cause metastasized into the single most corrupt, anti-intellectual movement in American history and are now just destroying everything for the dear leader, corporate interest, israel, and a bitter resentment toward a liberal caricature that went out of fashion years ago. Our country is quickly backsliding into an actual authoritarian dictatorship, trust in American securities and investments is evaporating worldwide, and we're speeding towards completely avoidable market collapse because the guy behind the wheel have no fucking idea what a tariff actually is.

Do I love the dems? Fuck no, their incompetence and smug self-assured bullshit is why we got here in the first place. But when faced between having a government that mostly functions run by annoying freaks, and a government that's self-demolishing run by psychotic faggots who want to funnel as much money to their private benefactors, of course I'm gonna vote the former.
As of last election, I switched my protest vote from straight GOP to straight democrat.
Believe it or not, I'd rather my country actually exist in 50 years instead of slumping into a "based" 3rd world shithole with cracker characteristics.