When I got into Tufts, my guidance counselor John Zanetti came to our house. Zanetti told my father, you have to send Anthony to this private school. It’s down the block from Harvard. Don’t send him to the state school. My dad was making $30,000 a year, the state school cost $6,000, and Tufts was $24,000. My dad said, we can’t afford it. Zanetti said, Anthony will figure it out. My father did two things: He cashed his union life insurance check, $10,000, and gave it to me. Then he went to his union foreman and got me a job on the stone dock in Port Washington. $16 an hour at 18 years old. Because of the Republican Party. And that’s why I’m still in it, even after Trump’s hostile takeover. Even after he decapitated the party I grew up in and installed MAGA in its place. My life story is tied to that loyalty. I had lunch with Mitt Romney and he said we should fight for the party’s future. Get it back to mainstream centrism before it’s too late.