Facebook Google+ The Daily Orange is a nonprofit newsroom that receives no funding from Syracuse University. Consider donating today to support our mission. A couple of years ago, I proudly checked the ‘Republican’ box on a voter registration form handed to me by democracy-loving volunteers who were tabling in Ernie Davis Dining Center. Today, I am a ‘Republican’ no more. As I watched a mob of brainwashed, conspiracy-minded Trump supporters, egged on by our president, storm the United States Capitol and disrupt Congress’s certification of the election, a personal dilemma manifested itself that required me to reevaluate deeply that innocent, nigh, naïve decision I made as an SU freshman.