I grew up in MA. The GOP here and elsewhere in New England was a rational political party, at least at the state and local level. Most of my relatives, except for my father (who claimed to be only the 4th person to register as a Dem in our town, in 1942), were Republicans. I might well have voted for the likes of Frank Sargent, Elliot Ri…
I grew up in MA. The GOP here and elsewhere in New England was a rational political party, at least at the state and local level. Most of my relatives, except for my father (who claimed to be only the 4th person to register as a Dem in our town, in 1942), were Republicans. I might well have voted for the likes of Frank Sargent, Elliot Richardson, and Ed Brooke if I'd been old enough or, a little later, living elsewhere. Massachusetts, it was said, loves its Republican governors: we had one, Charlie Baker, as recently as 2022, when he decided not to run for a third term. By then the MA GOP had gone full MAGA but it took a longer than it did elsewhere.
I grew up in MA. The GOP here and elsewhere in New England was a rational political party, at least at the state and local level. Most of my relatives, except for my father (who claimed to be only the 4th person to register as a Dem in our town, in 1942), were Republicans. I might well have voted for the likes of Frank Sargent, Elliot Richardson, and Ed Brooke if I'd been old enough or, a little later, living elsewhere. Massachusetts, it was said, loves its Republican governors: we had one, Charlie Baker, as recently as 2022, when he decided not to run for a third term. By then the MA GOP had gone full MAGA but it took a longer than it did elsewhere.