California’s disastrous progressive governance should be a model for how not to run a state. Instead, Colorado views California as a model to follow, turning itself into Rocky Mountain California.

Colorado has become one of the most prominent red-to-blue states in the country in recent history. From 1968 to 2004, Colorado backed the Republican candidate for president all but once, backing Bill Clinton in 1992 after independent Ross Perot siphoned votes away from President George H.W. Bush. Since 2008, Colorado has been reliably blue in the Electoral College. A Democrat has been governor of Colorado since 2007, and Republicans have not won a statewide election in Colorado since 2016, when a GOP candidate won a seat on the University of Colorado Board of Regents.