Gotcha. Still, I'm going to deflect your actual question and say this. I've always had opinions about worldly things but wouldn't necessarily say I loved to talk politics. I knew my Dad was GOP and that he always made a point of voting, but he and I wouldn't really talk politics either.
Then I can remember getting a tad older and having a discussion with an adult who decidedly was expressing some political opinions and then made a startling admission: THEY NEVER VOTED. I thought that was ludicrous. How can you be so vociferously opinionated and then completely opt out of the civic process? I have been a sporadic voter myself but that conversation always stuck with me.
Anyway, I don't really like politics and don't really consider myself political but yet I obvs do talk about it. Politics is an ugly business always but especially these last 8 years. I am 60 years old. Lived through the 1960s but blissfully unaware of how turbulent a period of time that was. I have no interest in becoming radicalized or "boxed in" to either side. Never did. However, I mos def "identify" more as Republican; and after Saturday, I and a lot of others have felt, for whatever reason, it was time to stop whispering it and just come out and state it. Taking the measure of a person isn't predicated upon what box they tick.