Do you really want to know why some people are MAGAts? Read my story.

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79. My very first vote was for a Republican, too

But not because I was ever a Republican. The old boy Democratic machine in Philadelphia, where I was in college, ran the corrupt, right-wing police commissioner, Frank Rizzo as their candidate for mayor. Rizzo was an arrogant, neo-fascist buffoon who belonged in the American Nazi Party more than anywhere else, but that wouldn't have gotten him in a position to get rich. His Republican opponent, Thatcher Longstreth, was a soft-spoken bureaucrat type, but he did not get his rocks off by seeing thug cops beat anti-war protesters with their nightsticks, so I voted for him.

Rizzo won, but he quickly said Nixon was "his friend," and switched to the Republican Party, which was where he belonged the whole time anyway. Questions soon arose as to how he was suddenly building a $400,000 house on a $40,000 salary (this was 1971-2, don't forget), and Rizzo soon faded into deserved obscurity, although there is still a disgusting statue of him in downtown Philadelphia. That was the only time I voted for a Republican, and I am not in the least ashamed of it.