I see stories like this, and others out of places like NY and CT, and think “those guys are past the Claire Wolfe stage.”
I had a golf buddy in Arizona who was stationed at the Naval Annex in Boston. I asked him one day why folks there were so liberal. He said they didn't know any different. It was in their genes. They were raised to vote democRAT. They have elected, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Barney Frank, Ed Markey, Elizabeth Warren. More left-wing nut cases than any other state I can think of.
How a state that started out rebelling against the British crown with the Boston Tea Party could have come full circle, where they now are as oppressive as what they originally rebelled from, is beyond my pay grade and comprehension.