I Guess I'm A Democrat Now: I'm leaving the Republican Party -- here's why you should too

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2. "I'm uncomfortable, but I'm OK," he writes.

I'm more uncomfortable with him being in our party than he is.

Leaving the GOP is easy.

But, what do you do when you agree with one party’s premises while abhorring their conclusions? When the other isn’t premised on much of anything? If you don’t want to end up independently irrelevant, where do you go?

Someday the Democratic Party might split, and we’ll see the rise of a moderate/centrist party focused on practical solutions to everyday problems instead of using them to pursue a broad ideological agenda. It can be home to independents as well as disaffected Ds and Rs.

Until then, whether I’ve intentionally chosen them or not — I guess these are my people now.

Great. Not. I realize this is just one man's conjecture, but what do we do when the Nicolle Wallace's of the GOP all join our party and take it even further to the right, at a time when I think a lot of people would like to see the Democratic Party go more to the left? I predicted this would happen as the Republican Party continues it's hard right trajectory, and here we are.