U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at the “Fighting Oligarchy Tour” event he and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held on March 21, 2025, at Civic Center Park in Denver. (Lindsey Toomer/Colorado Newsline)
There has been a sense of suspended animation in the Denver area over the past two months. You can feel it walking in neighborhoods, shopping in grocery stores, talking with friends. We are far away from Washington, D.C., geographically, but the upheaval there and at an ostentatious country club in south Florida is seeping into the hearts and minds of those who live here.
People may be going about their day-to-day lives, but they are also on edge. They can’t help wondering what the vans holding the ICE agents look like. Hearing sirens, whether they are close by or in the distance, brings worries about what may be happening to individuals they may be close to or someone they have had a brief, friendly encounter with at a restaurant, at their children’s school, or at a sporting event…