I can believe that the GOP is a racist, misogynistic, homophobic den of vipers that needs to die in a fire, without reducing them each as persons into cartoon villains in my mind. I know (too many) Republicans, and some of them want the US to be a White Christian Straight Nation™ (aka, the “Faith and Flag” Republicans), and others are just stuck in a Boomer mentality of “Republicans understand fiscal policy, Democrats love spending money” (aka “Ambivalent Right”).
I don’t want any Republican in office, but I need to be able to see the daylight between Nikki Haley and Donald Trump, or I can’t actually strategize around persuading their respective voting blocs. If all Republicans are just Donald-Trump-in-a-mask, there’s no point even trying to strategize (and frankly, if you think this way you’re going to be led around by the nose by people who will exploit that, which it seems like the DNC is doing very well right now).