“I read somewhere that Portland became the disaster that it is now due to an influx of expatriate Calis from Silicon Valley.”
It was a combination of home grown lunatics and people from “your neck of the woods.” They both contributed equally in my opinion.
For instance the last good mayor of Portland was a democrat named Frank Ivancie, the progressives hated his guts and got rid of him in 1985. He ended his political career as a Reagan democrat.
It is very weird that at the peak of the Reagan Revolution, the left wing west coast resistance was growing and maturing into the behemoth that it is today.
“It is very weird that at the peak of the Reagan Revolution, the left wing west coast resistance was growing and maturing into the behemoth that it is today.”
They sure didn’t meet an ounce of pushback from GHW Bush, Reagan’s great mistake. The other being the 1986 amnesty. Reagan should have dumped Bush in the ‘84 election and taken Paul Laxalt.