The future of politics in Massachusetts is female.
I’ve thought that for a while, but Ayanna Pressley put an exclamation point on that sentence Tuesday night. Her landslide victory was also a message from the new guard in Massachusetts politics: Change can’t wait.
You’ll recognize that as Pressley’s campaign slogan, but it also should be the rallying cry of an entire movement, led by a formidable troika of Pressley, Maura Healey, and Michelle Wu.
They are the epitome of impatient women, and Massachusetts politics will never be the same.
Pressley dared to unseat a fellow Democrat, 20-year incumbent US Representative Mike Capuano, arguing that representation matters in politics, not just ideology. Now she is on a path to become the first woman of color from Massachusetts to serve in Congress.
Healey, in 2014, bucked the establishment candidate, Warren Tolman (remember, him?), when she ran for state attorney general. Like Pressley, Healey trounced…
