'A huge red flag for Republicans': GOP frantic as longtime voters abandon party over Trump

[Aristus]

4. Another case in point: Mrs. Aristus.

A once die-hard Republican, she has voted Democratic in Presidential races since 2008, although she voted for the Republican in the down-ballot races in those same elections.

Since the convulsive shock caused by Trump's electoral college win last year, she has vowed never to vote for any Republican ever again; not even for dog-catcher. A devout evangelical Christian, she stopped going to church when exit polling revealed that 81% of evangelicals voted for Trump. She told me she couldn't possibly go to church knowing that 81% of the people surrounding her in the sanctuary likely were Trump voters.

She is still in a deep, depressed daze a year later. Not just because she feels betrayed by the party and the church she has supported her entire adult life. But because, like the rest of us, she sees Trump's presidency as a catastrophic blow to American morality and integrity.