There’s something strange about the Republican Party leadership in purplish states that are turning ever more blue. Instead of moderating and perhaps trying to pick off a tight district or two, it seems that a bunch of nutters have taken over.

Let’s start with Minnesota:

Moving on to Colorado, this guy is insane. I haven’t watched the whole 30 minute interview, but the clips, holy shit:

Kyle Clark, one of the best journalists in the country, is working overtime on Colorado Republican crazy.

Peters is required to have therapy as part of her release, but the old joke “How many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, but they have to want to change.” is in full operation here. In case you want to be further enraged, the clown Polis has started a Substack (of course) and his first post further explains the stupidity of his decision. Court decisions can take a long time, you guys, so he just had to jump in to make sure this malignant piece of shit was free to spread her lies, is the gist of it.

The interesting thing about Colorado, at least, is that once we get a governor who isn’t really a Republican, we’re probably going to re-district and probably end up with one Republican seat. Klobuchar has already said that she’s not that interested in re-districting, but hopefully enough pressure will be applied to her to either make her change her mind or turn into a diamond. Either way, these states aren’t going more red in this environment. So it looks like the fever isn’t going to break for the nutters who are running them — it’s just going to get worse.