Two weeks ago, the leadership of the Libertarian Party of Colorado sued 15 people to block them from attending the party’s convention.

By the convention’s end, seven of those defendants had been elected to the party’s board, including as its chair and vice chair, with promises to “clean up” the party’s image, stop “repelling people” and — perhaps most consequentially for the state and country — to go back to running Libertarian candidates across the state.

“We won,” longtime party member Caryn Ann Harlos summarized in an email shortly after the convention ended last weekend.

The overhaul was the result of more than 12 months of growing conflict within Colorado’s largest minor political party, which has about 37,000 registered voters and has long focused on personal and economic libert

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