Conservative columnist George Will announced Friday he has left the Republican Party, citing irreconcilable differences or some such thing between him and the GOP’s presumed presidential nominee, Donald Trump.

Much as I’ve liked Will in the past, I say good riddance.

There’s a certain attitude among Washington’s political and media elite that one must be part of the club to, well, be part of the club. There’s the in-group and the out-group, and it has nothing to do with party affiliation. Among media types George Will is the establishment Republican. Now he’s just establishment.

And unless it’s about baseball, I now have no reason to read any more George Will columns.