Why Maine Will Change – Go Republican

Maine – like many Democrat-controlled states – has had enough. It is in a tailspin. Democrats invite and fund illegal aliens, just made Maine a “sanctuary law” penalizing police for talking with ICE, created explosive drug trafficking (10,000 ODs annually, sex trafficking), in June 2025 Democrats raised personal and corporate income tax (again), and “deftly” (black humor) pushed Maine’s public education down to 50 of 50, super for indoctrination, terrible for solid education.

But there is more. Maine Republicans – and Independents and Democrats – are sick of ever-higher property taxes, stunned that Maine is now Number One in the nation for a tax killing seniors and keeping young people from ever owning a home, even renting. This has GOT to stop, be reversed, and can be. In some towns, property taxes tripled in seven years, in some doubled, and in all rose.

Why? Because they are not capped, and Democrats push unfunded mandates down. What are those? They are “death by a thousand cuts,” as several county commissioners have told me, regulations “gone wild,” mandates on schools (politically correct, objectively stupid), and AI pushed on teachers by administrators (and “curriculum coordinators”), plus endless mandates on towns.

We are secretly being fed poison, overregulation that is fundamentally killing us. From new Democrat mandates on jails, schools, towns, and counties – upping property taxes – we are crumbling.

Crumbling? Yes, seniors can no longer afford to stay in homes they paid for years ago, property taxes are out of control to satisfy the Democrat addiction to spending, mandates, and progressive crap. Seniors need to be EXEMPT from property taxes. Why pay rent to the government for what you own?

Yes, because young, working Mainers under 35 cannot afford a home, the American Dream, since median income is $200 below median rental, so they live with parents, work, no chance for a home.

That has GOT to stop! But it is worse. Beyond crime, drugs, taxes, and affordability, Mainers – and many victimized by woeful Democrats – face what might be called moral and social decay. Rather than leaning in, educating the next generation to work hard, get prosperity with real skills, they are doping them (literally and figuratively) with dependence.

Moreover, from my daily interaction with young people and their parents, they are catching on, realizing that they are being lulled into a purposeless life, disrespected, not inspired by can-do, not incentivized by high-dollar jobs in the trades, college, running a company – as I long have.

Older people are realizing they are being used, sidelined for useless spending on useless things – like illegals, cost sucking solar and wind subsidies ($1.6 billion paid for by non-solar users), while young people are “the boiling frog,” the one who figures it out too late, only they are waking up.

They want really good jobs, good skills, more chances to use their hands, and if they want to get good degrees. They want affordable housing, they want a life, a chance to work and get a house, what the same Democrats in power now GOT – but are denying to the next generation, and they are right.

Let’s be honest. The other issues are ridiculous, just Democrat fund-raising schemes, pushing anatomically MALE men in top GIRLS locker rooms, bathrooms, and causing them trauma at a young age, fear, and degradation – loss of physical, emotional, spiritual, dignity, and privacy rights.

What is wrong with these Democrats? That is a question in Maine now – and nationally. A recent survey noted, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, that “63 percent of voters hold an unfavorable view of the Democrat Party – the highest back to 1990″, and “30 points higher than the 33 percent with a favorable view.”

What does all this mean? In Maine – and likely the nation – it means a day of reckoning. Voters are sick of lies, arrogance, fear, lost public safety, unaffordable lives, uncaring career elected pols, and loss of control over their government. They want it back, and now.

While Maine’s Governor Mills gives the middle finger to Mainers – and gets ritually booed (moose lottery, parades), Mainers are beginning to catch on. They can control their destiny, or let the Democrats control their lives.

They watch her build a multi-million dollar fence about her “mansion” – the latest indulgence this faithless, feckless, indifferent governor has decided is her right  – and ee their lives get more insecure. They are not going to have it.

Bottom line: Watch blue states – Maine to the nation – rise in 2026. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this will be an accountability-centric midterm ever. People are angry. Maine will change – likely go Republican – with other Democrat states. As candidate for Governor, I am all over it.  

Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, Maine attorney, ten-year naval intelligence officer (USNR), and 25-year businessman. He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (North Country Press, 2018), and “Cherish America: Stories of Courage, Character, and Kindness” (Tower Publishing, 2024). He is the National Spokesman for AMAC. Today, he is running to be Maine’s next Governor (please visit BobbyforMaine.com to learn more)!