I think Leslie probably would have convinced him to

He would have voted. He would have written in "The reanimated head of Theodore Roosevelt".

My thought as well, which isn't much better, tbh.

he would like it in concept but suddenly not when musk leads it and especially not when it cuts the park system and upsets his friends

he would have said "They're expanding the government to slash the government - just slash the budget!"

Tom is from South Carolina. There was a whole plotline about him marrying a Canadian woman so she could get a green card.

There’s an entire episode where he’s on record of “slashing the budget with a machete” but in that same episode sacrificing his job to save Leslie.

That pretty much captures the Republican ideal in a nutshell: Think that the world is simple and have no empathy for the other side, until it personally affects them and suddenly they are for gay rights, or trans rights, or unemployment, or Social Security, or whatever is being debated.

Yup, more like a 2003 era Republican, the type who still had some neurons left.