Four Republican candidates vying to be Colorado’s next governor came together over the weekend for the first official forum of the campaign to replace term-limited Jared Polis next year – and put on the strangest, bleakest performance I have seen in my decade-plus political career in the process. As the candidates took turns painting a vision of what they see as wrong with Colorado and how they hope to make it right again, each provided a glimpse into a dark fantasy world which bears little resemblance to our own.