On election night in Colorado, it looked like Barb Kirkmeyer, the “sane” candidate in the Republican gubernatorial primary — meaning she only voted for her county to secede from the state — was going to beat the “insane” candidates. The most insane, which is a hard call to make, was Victor Marx, a guy who’s claimed to have saved thousands of women and children via his paramilitary missionary work. Taking a close second was Scott Bottoms, who believes that there is a cabal of Democratic pedophiles in the state capital and has claimed to have sparked a FBI investigation of them.

Welp, look at this:

What I like about Kyle Clark is that he’s not afraid to speak a simple truth:

Kyle is a target of hate by Colorado’s insane Republicans, but even Lauren Boebert knows that being interviewed by him is important. That’s a kind of media power that you get when you’re honest, fair and don’t pull punches.

The Colorado Republican party is not in anything like the position that the Democratic Parties of Wyoming, North and South Dakota, where Democrats have had very few recent electoral victories. Colorado Republicans hold Congressional seats, have a decent-sized minority in the legislature, and they have a lot of city, town and county offices. They’ve responded to their loss of statewide power with feral, nutty candidates who are going to get squashed like bugs in a car grille come November.

In short, the fever isn’t going to break. The base of the Colorado Republican Party likes being fooled by crazy people — their only disagreement is about their preferred flavor of crazy. How they got that way really isn’t as important as how Democrats are going to beat them. The way to victory is not talking about “reaching across the aisle” or “my friends who happen to be Republican.” Calling out Republican crazy, showing that it is a dead end for anyone who cares about having a better life, is the way out of this mess.