My political alignment hasn't really changed much over the past ten years; at most, I've become more right-leaning on market issues. I'm still very progressive (as you can see in my 8values in my signature), but I can't abide the current incarnation of the DNC. I voted Libertarian for the first time in 2016 after voting Democrat in every previous election and this will be the first election where I will mix ticket Libertarian/Republican. The DNC and their supporters just don't
get it. I'm not some FOX News-watching, conservative talk radio-listening Evangelical Christian neo-Nazi KKK fascist. I listen to NPR on the way to work, I'm atheist, egalitarian, and last I checked, libertarians, who believe that government should be almost non-existent, are about as far away from fascists as you can get. I just don't think what the DNC and their supporters are pushing right now is good for the country and what they're pushing frequently doesn't have anything to do with being a liberal or being progressive.
Which is why you should look at the averages instead of running with the single most pro-republican pollster in the entire US (538 adds a penalty of -6 R when weighting its polls)
Please re-read my post. My initial figure was from Rasmussen, and I then went on to show both weighted and unweighted averages over the course of the past several weeks using statistics provided by 538 (which is run by Nate Silver, who was pretty anti-Trump as I remember).
Edit: wanted to add some more context
The reason I won't be voting Democrat is really the same as it was last election. I was hoping 2016 would serve as a wake-up call to the DNC that they had lost touch with what most people think is right and fair, but if anything, they've doubled down on the mistakes they made in 2016. They're seeing things
entirely through the lens of partisanship and completely ignoring the nuance the situation warrants. It's not about left versus right; it's the general behavior of the DNC and its supporters that apologizes for and at times even empowers its radical elements while stifling and demonizing anyone who dissents with any part of the agenda.
Maybe you don't see things that way. The thing is, this isn't about how party supporters see things. It's about how people who could feasibly be convinced to change their vote see things: independents, undecided voters, moderates, etc. At the very, very best, the DNC has a severe PR problem in that your typical uncommitted voter sees them as enabling unethical behavior. Certain Democratic congresspeople telling their supporters to harass Republicans is
exactly the kind of thing that's losing them votes from moderates. It's extremely bad PR for the party and the correct move politically would have been to disavow and strongly rebuke that kind of rhetoric.