Mike Minogue need not worry about not being much of a Republican.

Former Gov. Charlie Baker was not much of a Republican either, yet he was elected twice and probably would have won a third time had he run in 2022.

Baker, according to President Donald Trump and others, was not only a RINO (Republican In Name Only), but a RINO’S RINO.

“He shouldn’t even be considered a Republican,” Trump said of Baker.

But it worked. Baker was a popular and — with exceptions — an effective governor in progressive and heavily Democrat Massachusetts, and he found ways to work with an overwhelmingly Democrat controlled Legislature.

Baker looked Republican but talked Democrat.

The stumbling around of Democrat Gov. Maura Healey, Baker’s progressive successor, makes Baker, in retrospect, appear to be an eve

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