Yep . . . back then I identified as a liberal, and I was going to vote for Hillary Clinton and then my fellow liberals actually called me a racist because I preferred Hillary to a first term U.S. senator with ZERO meaningful national level political experience and no management or leadership history . . . even if he did have a great speaking voice and a cool skin tone.
It was at that moment that I ceased being a Dem Party member on non-thinking but all feeeeeeeeeeeeeeling ideological auto-pilot and finally stopped and looked at what liberals, progressives, and leftists were doing to this nation and what they had become. I have voted Republican ever since.