I always felt Dan was a small "c" conservative who just got disillusioned with what Republican chicanery. All he really wants at the end of the day are low taxes and FREEDOM while he fears hyperinflation and financial collapse like a Puritan fears the devil. Like many white independents, he agrees that racism is bad in principle, but the issue doesn't excite him enough to get on his high horse about it, or indeed, change his voting behaviour. He seems to be like "If only the Republicans weren't so blatantly corrupt and so nakedly, hideously evil!"