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Attention? Self-loathing? Money? There are options. No good ones, but they're there.

Maybe he's racist against immigrants? Alternatively, maybe he's hoping that they'll care more about him being a fellow rich person (if he is in fact rich) than about his gay blackness (they don't).

Last job, the gay Hispanic receptionist was a Trump man. My Philippina wife was too. Past tense, once I showed her a few things. She had only seen Fox News in her 2-years in America.

This guy? Fuck is his excuse?!

The only way a gay black man is a republican is because republicans are easy to grift.

He's stupid.

too much time downwind of a burn pit?

He likely bought into the idea of “well, there’s bigots on both sides, but at least the GOP will help me keep more of my money.”

The problem, however, is that the GOP have doubled down on social issues that shouldn’t really be part of the platform, and in doing so, the GOP have turned away from anything that was remotely useful in them.

This idea of the “self-made” person and pulling oneself up by one’s bootstraps sounds appealing on paper and can be inviting at first. My grandmother received her Master’s in Nursing at a time when the vast majority of blacks, let alone black women, in a medical field weren’t doing much more than the laundry. It’s easy to be proud of such things and attribute this to conservative ideals of doing “more” out of pure determination and strength of will, and then admonishing those who have neither the drive nor intelligence to do the same.

And then…there was Trump.

Under his umbrella, it seemed as if overnight, the party that was about doing for “self” was more about removing options for anyone who wasn’t a straight white Christian and ensuring that the “others” stayed in their place. What could once be ignored with the dismissive of “well, there’s plenty of liberals who are racist too”, was no longer applicable. The Left turned from the racists who pretended to care for show to just the people who’d rather let a few so-called “undeserving” folks get fed, clothed, and housed to ensuring that the hundred who really need help would be able to get it. Meanwhile, the Right continued down the path of being anti-everything; anti-anyone not white, not male, not Christian, and they weren’t even remotely concerned about the deficit or lowering taxes across the board for the people instead of just for major corporations and the top 1% of the 1%.

I don’t blame this man for having been a gay black Republican at some point, and trying to hold onto what he thought made sense in the past. I do, however, raise an eyebrow at any rational person who has watched the GOP’s descent and yet has still marched with them while they refuse to back away from white nationalism and show approval of outright hatred of all women, and non-Christians, and all people of color, and all those who aren’t cis-heteronormative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews

Must be fiscally conservative and worried about the debt. That's what they're focused on right? Right? /s

Maybe they're one of Hillary's other mentioned deplorables. Or maybe they're like the other half that are just disconnected from reality and don't feel like any of Trump's shit will impact them (until it does). And to be fair, Democrats have worked hard to make sure people aren't impacted by the things Trump did.

Money.

'cuz at least he's not a woman

He's probably just an idiot.

He doesn’t realize that there’s a quota of “one of the good ones” and it’s already been met

The usual answer of Log Cabin Republicans is "I like lower taxes". Not much thought beyond that.