In hindsight, our nation’s bout with “cancel culture” was mercifully short-lived. The rabble that hit the streets of U.S. cities in summer 2020 — toppling statues, burning buildings, silencing public speakers and denouncing, well, everything — was in retreat across much of the country a year or so later.
Except in Colorado — where the madness lingered on.
The state’s increasingly left-leaning elected leadership ushered in a renaming rampage that purported to atone for past transgressions, real and imagined. It was an orgy of empty political posturing, heralded by the chattering class but bewildering to most Coloradans…