After coming out in support of impeaching President Donald Trump, Michigan GOP Rep. Justin Amash is officially calling it quits.



In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Amash announced that he is officially leaving the Republican Party and wants other lawmakers to join him in rejecting “partisan loyalties and rhetoric.”



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Amash said he ran for public office as a Republican on the belief that conservatives supported limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.



Now, he theatrically claims, the president has "destroyed" the GOP and made everything too politcal.



"In recent years, though, I’ve become disenchanted with party politics and frightened by what I see from it,” he said in the op-ed. “The two-party system has evolved into an existential threat to American principles and institutions.”



Amash attempted to be clever and does not mention Trump by name in his op-ed, but instead cites “the consolidation of political power and near disintegration of representative democracy.”



“The parties value winning for its own sake, and at whatever cost. Instead of acting as an independent branch of government and serving as a check on the executive branch, congressional leaders of both parties expect the House and Senate to act in obedience or opposition to the president and their colleagues on a partisan basis,” he wrote.



Amash went on to argue that Congress was created for the purpose of it standing as a deliberative body to discover new outcomes, but claimed that it has become a formality to legitimize instructions from the president or Congressional leadership.



Again, he blames Trump for everything rather than obstructionist Democrats or himself for not being able to deliver anything on a bipartisan level.



“With little genuine debate on policy happening in Congress, party leaders distract and divide the public by exploiting wedge issues and waging pointless messaging wars,” he argued.



He added: "These strategies fuel mistrust and anger, leading millions of people to take to social media to express contempt for their political opponents, with the media magnifying the most extreme voices."



He calls on Americans to preserve liberty by “telling the Republican Party and the Democratic Party that we’ll no longer let them play their partisan game at our expense.”



“No matter your circumstance, I’m asking you to join me in rejecting the partisan loyalties and rhetoric that divide and dehumanize us,” he said.



Amash has been under enormous pressure ever since he declared a few weeks ago that Trump obstructed justice, which also led to him resigning from a key post.

Last month, Amash quit the conservative House Freedom Caucus, a libertarian group that has major pull in Congress.



The Michigan lawmaker said he has “the highest regard for them, and they’re my close friends,” but he “didn’t want to be a further distraction for the group.”

Amash, a founding member of the Freedom Caucus, has long been a lone wolf in Congress, routinely bucking GOP leadership and defying Trump on a number of issues throughout the past two years.

Amash, a 39-year-old libertarian who rode the 2010 tea party wave to Congress, had stopped showing up to HFC meetings this year and even threatened to quit the group at one point last year after they didn’t stand up to Trump for attacking one of their own members, South Carolina’s Mark Sanford, who was facing a pro-Trump primary challenge.

After siding with Democrats and turning his back on Republicans, a new poll shows that Amash is down 16 points to Jim Lower, meaning he could be removed from his position in the upcoming election.

Lower is a Republican who is challenging Amash in the 2020 primary for Michigan's 3rd district.

According to a poll from Practical Political Consulting, Lower thumped Amash in a head-to-head match-up, 49 percent to 33 percent.

Time will tell what happens next, but Amash down 16 points and quitting the GOP could mean he will be out of Congress by next term.