I seem to recall reading an article saying that Bielat should’ve run in an adjacent district as he probably would’ve won (either against Tierney or for the open Cape & Islands district in the then-10th). Frank’s district, although containing parts of the ancestral GOP area that sent Speaker Martin and Peg Heckler until 1983, still has too many moonbat areas.
As per that article you sent me, I don’t believe the state will remain indefinitely one party/one ideology. There’s enormous opportunity for growth running anti-establishment candidates with an eye to finally dispatching the leftist control of the state GOP. A big part of the reason the Dems seized a majority was taking advantage of a stagnant and statist GOP, and that’s the problem the MA Dems face now.
Your alternative universe visions of a “Massholechusetts Rebirth” are about as realistic as my alternative universe vision of the destruction of the USSR post September 2, 1945, via a two fronted war campaign against them.