Chuck Plunkett is a former Denver Post editorial page editor. He resigned in 2018. A professional journalist for more than 20 years, he served as The Post's politics editor from July 2011 through July 2016. Plunkett worked for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, his hometown paper, and for The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review before coming to The Denver Post in 2003.
Coloradans should see any Bannon-Tancredo coalition for what it is: a cynical way to keep the donations coming in and stoke division with little chance of electoral success.
Clinging to the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse at this stage hands Trump-era critics too useful a tool in the broader battle to protect wildlife and the environment.
What happened in Turkey is an extreme result of what happens when populist movements and the opportunist politicians who enthrall them lose sight of what's important.