“…then we MUST vote Democrat.”
No, that makes no sense.
The winning strategy is to disregard party affiliation and vote for the lesser of two evils.
If the lesser evil is the RINO, you vote for the RINO.
If the lesser evil is the Democrat, you vote for the Democrat.
Obviously, if you are repeatedly stuck with such a choice, and you want to do something about it, you may need to get more involved at the committee level so that you can influence the nomination process.
But once the primaries are over, and it’s time to vote in the general, political strategists and game theorists overwhelmingly agree that you must vote for the lesser of two evils.
Throwing your vote away, writing in a non-contender, or voting for the opposition are all acts of spite, and serve no strategic purpose.
On the contrary, spite is what personal opposition is all about. This becomes a personal matter. One doesn’t oppose the Swamp by becoming part of the Swamp “at the committee level”.
One opposes the swamp by erasing a creature from it. We’re talking about deep Red situations here. A traitorous Congress critter in red Wyoming must be erased. A traitorous Senator in Utah must be erased.
Collins? No other Republican could hold that seat. Leave her alone.
But a RINO in a Red seat is absolutely unacceptable and it is configured thus because some Swamp party official has arranged to defend him. Then it’s personal. Then you vote Dem and erase him, and then the party official.
There is NO loyalty to the GOP. They conform of they lose their Swamp money flow.