Susan Bigelow is an award-winning columnist and the founder of CTLocalPolitics. She lives in Enfield with her wife and their cats.
Wouldn’t it be great to have an actual opposition party? Maybe we can, if state Republicans are finally willing to make a resolution to be relevant.
It feels so futile to make resolutions on New Year’s. Real change usually requires a shove from outside, or some kind of driving need instead of a halfhearted promise. When we’re feeling like things are going fine, we tend to just keep going along.
The Republican Party in this state is doing just that right now, even though they’re in the middle of a deep crisis that has been going on for well over a decade. They last won the governor’s office in 2006, and their numbers in the legislature have gone from bad to worse to now merely mediocre. They lost the three congressional districts they held before 2006, and they haven’t come close to winning a U.S. Senate seat since they drove Lowell Weicker out of the party. They couldn’t even knock off an unpopular governor during one of the most Republican-friendly years in memory. That’s how bad things are.
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