gop media figures who pled the party including joe scarborough, mary madeline and george will. will wrote an op-ed in the "washington post" that advocated voting against the gop to quarantine trump. yours truly was ahead of the curve, switching back in 2010. i switched from "r" to "i" and publishes in the "washington post" explaining the party is over. i wrote the gop is a party of exclusion and litmus tests dominated with the right with zero disearnable outreach to the party that doesn't fit neatly within the parameters. the gop expanded to the fringe, throwing under the bus long-standing members. i explained why i was not comfortable joining the democratic party. schmidt now joins the 45% of us who don't id as "r" or "d."