Larry Hogan has always struck me as having more in common with Pataki than current peers like Phil Scott and Charlie Baker.
This is true. Larry Hogan is a very moderate Republican, but Baker and especially Scott are literal RINOs. They would fit right in with moderate Democrats were they to switch parties.
Well, people i mentioned (Case, Mathias, plus Javits, Brooke a.o.) were more liberal, then "moderate Democrats" of their time. And almost nobody called them "RINO's", btw....
Two of them lost their primaries though of course none of the four would even get to 25% today.