You didn’t leave the party. The party left you.

–Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye of the California Supreme Court describing what friends and family told her when she discussed her decision to leave the GOP. Cantil-Sakauye has served as California’s chief justice since 2011. She said that she’s felt the party moving away from her for a while but made up her mind after watching the party’s conduct during the Brett Kavanuagh confirmation process.