Anti-Trumpers are done with the GOP. Where do they go now?

When Jim Hendren, a longtime Arkansas state legislator, announced on Thursday that he was leaving the GOP, it marked the latest in a flurry of recent defections from the party.

Tens of thousands of Republicans across the country have changed their registrations in the weeks since the riot at the Capitol — many of them, like Hendren, becoming independents. Other former party officials are discussing forming a third party.

But if the Republicans’ reasons for leaving the GOP are obvious — primarily, disdain for former President Donald Trump and his...