Maybe the caller really was a lifelong Republican who belonged to the Lowell Weicker-Jake “the Snake” Javits-Clifford Case—Nancy Kassebaum wing of the GOP.
That’s a lot of names. I just say the Rockefeller Republicans.
Country Club republicans.
For a while our interests aligned, they wanted to make money, we saw no reason why they should not. We wanted to go our own way with the least restrictions possible they saw no reason why we should not. We both agreed America was a great place.
But they began to crave the approval of their fellow country club members who were democrats. And become citizens of the world. And they started to hold us in contempt.
And so the split.