“America is at a crossroads,” Kasich said while standing at a literal crossroads from his home Columbus suburb of Westerville. “I’m proud of my Republican heritage. It’s the party of Lincoln, who reflected its founding principles of unity and a higher purpose. But what I have witnessed these past four years belies those principles.”

One has to wonder then, what Kasich witnessed that could undermine President Donald Trump’s credibility as one of the most conservative presidents in the last 30 years. Just in his first term, Trump has set new standards for pro-life administrations, passed monumental tax cuts, confirmed more then 200 constitutionalist judges and signed a landmark criminal justice reform bill giving Trump a more credible record on the justice system than either former Vice President Joe Biden and California Sen. Kamala Harris.

Kasich’s indictment of Trump’s supposed abandonment of conservative principles then, speaks more of the failed 2016 presidential candidate’s own allegiance to NeverTrumpism than it does Trump’s adherence to them in the White House. The former primary rival’s criticism appears to be cut from the same “Orange Man Bad” ideology that provoked the media to condemn Trump’s patriotic speech at the base of Mount Rushmore honoring civil rights heroes as “dark and divisive.”
Former New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie offered no anguish over Kasich’s pointless stand.