If you are upset with the increasing regulatory burden in Colorado, the exodus of too many large employers, accelerating property taxes, the condition of the roads and all of the funding for transit schemes with low demand, of course you can lay the blame on Democrats who control all levers of state government. The same holds if your misgiving centers on annual efforts to undermine TABOR, ever-more-costly health insurance premiums, over-the-top bills to take away parental custody for misgendering a child, sentencing reductions for various crimes, and so on. Though whatever your gripe, you might reserve a small dollop of your scorn for their Republican counterparts who over and over again have opted for relentless infighting, outright extremism, and resulting irrelevance over doing what is required to serve as a competitive, respectable, viable counterforce. …