One thing we’ve always known about my friend, Prof. Alan Dershowitz: He is as loyal as they come. But for some reason, when it came to the Democratic Party, no matter what the Democrats did, no matter how conniving and tenuous their legal arguments, how hateful and abusive their rhetoric, how damaging their policies, and how brazen and sociopathic their leaders, the longtime liberal civil rights champion was always rock-solid loyal to them come Election Day. He proudly voted the straight-party Democrat ticket, no matter what. He had always “identified” as a Democrat, and that was it.

In that, he was as constant as the North Star, even as many of his fellow Dems heaped abuse on him just for daring to appear on Fox News (or my show) and making any legal point or observation that conflicted with their narrative.

But this week, he reached a turning point. The Harvard Law professor emeritus said on Monday that he no longer has any loyalty to the Democrat Party, and he would not be voting exclusively Democrat in future elections. “I am no longer voting presumptively for Democrats,” he told reporter John Solomon. “I’m gonna vote for whoever is the best candidate. That may include Democrats, but I have no loyalty any more to the party that is the cause, a major cause, of what’s going on at Columbia [University] today.”

Imagine that: a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat is actually vowing to vote for the best candidate. Not just a glass of water with a “D” on it. What a radical idea!