WASHINGTON — Knute Buehler, who led Oregon’s Republican ticket as the candidate for governor in 2018, watched with growing alarm in recent weeks as Republicans around the nation challenged the reliability of the presidential election results.

Ronna Romney wearing a colorful umbrella: With Republicans struggling amid an absence of leadership, Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, is trying to promote unity while saying she is not going to ride herd or impose top-down decision making on the party.© Al Drago for The New York Times With Republicans struggling amid an absence of leadership, Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, is trying to promote unity while saying she is not going to ride herd or impose top-down decision making on the party.

Then he watched the Jan. 6 siege at the United States Capitol in horror. And then, to his astonishment, Republican Party officials in his own state embraced the conspiracy theory that the attack was actually a left-wing “false flag” plot to frame Trump supporters.

The night after his party’s leadership passed a formal resolution promoting the false flag theory, Mr. Buehler cracked open a local microbrew and filed to change his registration from Republican to independent. “It was very painful,” he said.

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This reminds me a lot of Watergate and Nixon when I had been raised as a Conservative libertarian Republican
by my Father and Grandfather. I had to come to the point where after Watergate and the Impeachment hearings
I had to leave the Republican party permanently and become an independent myself. I was in my mid 20s at the
time but I never looked back because even though Nixon and Kissinger prevented a world war with China by
getting into trade agreements with them and even though Nixon was the best Statesman president of the 20th 
Century he was also paranoid in a way that was destroying our democracy a lot like Trump has temporarily
destroyed our democracy too. So, millions of Republicans who are horrified with what uneducated rank and file
conspiracy theorists have done with the party are leaving in droves now just like i was forced to by my own
ethics and honor as a young man in the early to mid 1970s because of Nixon.