Look at a map of DC. The roads form a pentagram, with the White House at the south tip.
My mother is a "lifelong Democrat" who hates Trump. She once called herself a JFK Democrat and she got pissed when I told her JFK wouldn't have just walked away from today's Democrat party, he would have RUN.
Holy Roman Empire and German Empire
In all fairness. sometimes under the right (or wrong) circumstances, what a person has been taught goes right out the window. Seen it happen in my own family.