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To begin with, a Party cannot really excommunicate, as it were, a member. If you join a Party, they cannot somehow claim that you are not one of them. The Party leadership can control how much support the allow you, but only up to a point, and if you are generating revenue for them, their hands are kind of bound.

And I, personally, have developed a deep and abiding distaste for the Republican Party. The people and the stupid are fairly trivial, but the policies of misogyny, glibertarian nihilism and tribalism are simply vile and unforgivable. Which is to say that Individual-ONE's narcissism and "I'm so smart!"-ness saved us from the worst possible of trashings. The prospect of a truly competent Republican president is terrifying.