I can only guess how that cast of characters would react to the corrupt & clueless orange buffoon currently infesting our White House. Your regular denunciations of him on here are kinda surprising; you were hard-line GOP on the old message boards.
I recognized early the deep threat to our Democracy Trump represents and that was indeed transformative for me. I wrote about that transformation. You can read it here: https://medium.com/@KeithDB/my-may-2016-open-letter-to-the-republican-party-54bfc7c73cad