Recent reporting in The New York Times showed that, in the 30 states that maintain voter registration information by party, a collective 4.5 million registered voters switched their registrations from Democrat to Republican between 2020 and 2024.

I’d bet money that, following the first seven months of the second Donald Trump administration, this trend is reversing in a favorable way for Democrats, but Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs polling from July shows that only 1 in 5 registered Democrats had positive things to say about their party.

What’s the deal?

Comedian Chris Rock once wisely said, as a friend recently shared with me, that voting Republican because you’re dissatisfied with Democrats is like saying “That guy didn’t cure cancer. I’m voting for cancer!” Nonethele

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