The Colorado GOP: Counting Down to Its Own Bombing

For months, the establishment wing of the Colorado GOP didn’t just challenge Dave Williams, they smeared him. They didn’t just disagree with his supporters, they demonized them. The message was clear: Williams was David Koresh, and anyone who backed him was part of a modern-day Branch Davidian cult. They didn’t run a political argument. They ran a fear campaign. The goal wasn’t to win hearts, it was to break kneecaps. The RINOs cast themselves as the FBI, here to save the party from “extremists,” and anyone who didn’t kneel got labeled a threat. Now, after months of this? They want to talk about unity. Let’s cut the nonsense: you don’t burn bridges and expect a handshake at the ashes. You don’t call half your party a cult and then wonder why they don’t fall in line. You don’t use Waco as a scare tactic and then pretend it’s all water under the bridge. What’s coming isn’t unity, it’s detonation. The Colorado GOP isn’t healing. It’s ticking. The real story isn’t about fixing divisions. It’s about ignoring them while the clock runs out. The party is setting itself up for its own Oklahoma City moment, only this time the blast radius will stretch across the ballot. The faces are different, but the script is the same. Brita Horn as McVeigh. Darrel Lee Phelan as Nichols. The building is the Colorado GOP. The date: November 3rd, 2026. The casualties? Republicans, up and down the ticket. That’s what happens when your strategy is political arson and your idea of leadership is defamation. You can’t smear your base, frame them as terrorists, and then slap “unity” on a bumper sticker. The establishment lit the fuse. Now they want the rest of us to pretend it isn’t burning. I hope I’m proven wrong, but that’s on the current leadership. Real unity starts with courage: the courage to admit the damage, the humility to apologize, and the sense to set out the welcome mat before it’s too late.

Trent Leisy