Yes, until 2008 I was an unthinking life-long Democrat and -- in 2008 -- a rather reluctant Hillary Clinton supporter. Based what I knew way back then, she and McCain seemed about interchangeable and nobody else in the Dem Party or Republican Party seemed any better. Barack Obama -- a first term U.S. Senator with ZERO meaningful national level experience and no history of leadership or management DID NOT impress me.
Then my fellow Dem Party members began calling me -- and Hillary Clinton supporters -- racist for having the audacity to prefer the more qualified WHITE woman over the TOTALLY unqualified Black man. ALL Barack Obama had going for him was a marvelous speaking voice and a chic skin tone. But his background was that of a professional race agitator and general Cultural Marxist and ALL of his mentors were cut from the same Socialistic/Marxist/Race-agitator cloth.
I gave the Dem Party and most liberals and ALL leftists the middle finger, left the Party . . . and never looked back. They can take their knee-jerk SHRIEKS of "Racist!" and "Racism" and shove it where their 'equity distributed' crack pipe . . . don't . . . shine.