re: #3 LudwigVanQuixote

“Republican” is a label to which people attach themselves, and it becomes part of the self-identity. People usually don’t give up their identities easily, as we’ve seen around here when somebody doggedly won’t let go of calling themselves “conservative” or “Republican” even if they give assent to your critique of the idiocy of many of the positions held many who also label themselves by those terms.