Jim Sleeper, a part-time resident of Alford, is a writer on American civic and political culture and racial politics. He is a former columnist for Newsday and the New York Daily News and taught political science at Yale from 1999-2020.
When I wrote four years ago, here in the Berkshire Edge, that I was becoming disillusioned with the Republican Party that I'd grown up respecting, I had no idea of how absurdly awful the party would actually become.
