Steve Schmidt, a longtime GOP strategist who has been critical of President Trump, renounced his party membership Wednesday in a string of fiery Tweets. “29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life,” he wrote. “It is fully the party of Trump.”
Schmidt continued to criticize all Republican party members, calling them “
feckless cowards,” with the exception of governors Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, Larry Hogan of Maryland, and John Kasich of Ohio. These three Republican leaders have been outspoken in their disgust with Trump’s policy of separating immigrant families at the border, a subject Schmidt himself has spoken out against.
“This child separation policy is connected to the worst abuses of humanity in our history,” Schmidt
wrote on Twitter. “It is connected by the same evil that separated families during slavery and dislocated tribes and broke up Native American families.”
