This guy got sick of rearranging the deck chairs.

If the Republican Party is going away, we will see a lot of this.

Pugs usually become independents, but they are allowed to join us.

I don't live in San Diego so I wouldn't know what he is like, but he certainly doesn't seem like the current crop of Republicans.

That said, the "Donald Trump has led ..." is kind of lame. The GOP has been heading where Trump expedited that trajectory for decades. They maybe fooled themselves into thinking they weren't headed toward open homophobia, religious bigotry, open racism, sexism, and open corruption and collusion with the wealthy to rob society blind or I guess (kleptocracy); but that is where they have been going since Nixon plotted with Ailes to put out the conservative news as a feature and Reagan shifted the tax structure to benefit the wealthiest and put the cost onto the middle class. Trump just made the destination more obvious because of his narcissism and lack of empathy for anyone else. If not with Trump, the GOP would have still gotten there eventually.

He is telling everyone that he'd rather bolt the Republicans, take a seat at the end of a very long Democratic line (remember, Democrats dominate the California Assembly, 60-20), than spend another day in the Republican caucus. If he's just occupying the seat until the next election, that's one thing, and his opportunistic party switch won't gain him much in the way of political clout. But if he intends to continue his political career, he's making a very public declaration of opposition to California's Republicans. California Republicans should indeed be fuming.