Good call, Governor Kasich

Whether he has a Democrat (or former Democrat) as his running mate or not, it certainly looks like a certain relatively popular outgoing Republican governor of Ohio is seriously considering running for president as an independent national unity candidate in 2020.

John Kasich, who was re-elected four years ago by thirty points, leaves little doubt that he is joining me and many others in the ranks of former Republicans.

Kasich ran for the Republican nomination in 2000 against George W. Bush, John McCain, Steve Forbes, and others. He ran again in 2016 as the nice, reasonable guy in a year in which Republican voters were looking for an unreasonable and preferably irrational jerk. They found him, and Kasich has been one of the relatively few Republicans who has refused to buy into the Trumpist lunacy.

But now it seems that he's leaving the party which can never again claim the heritage of Abraham Lincoln behind him.  Good. The GOP has disgraced itself, and I expect people of principle to leave it in droves in the next two years, as I already have.