Dave Williams was born about a thousand years too late.

The chairman of the Colorado Republican Party has launched a crusade to purge and purify the party of candidates who are not loyal and subservient to the narrow ideological agenda he has decided every Republican must swear fealty to.

Dave Williams might have reveled in the Inquisition in Europe in the 12th century, when the Catholic Church persecuted those it accused of being apostates and heretics.

He might have cheered on U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s when he conjured up secret lists of communists he alleged were living in the United States.

Perhaps he is inspired by the Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s when Mao Tse-tung forcibly tried to transform China into an industrialized nation leading to the Cultural Revolution that expunged those who challenged his policies.

Williams has personally benefited from the economy that was created by Mao and the Chinese Communist Party. He was an executive with a company that imported massive amounts of cheap Chinese goods into the United States.

When confronted with the documentation of his Chinese import business by CBS Colorado reporter Shaun Boyd, he dismissed it as “fake news.” When nailed to the wall with the facts, Williams just lies.

Purging and purifying the Colorado Republican Party of any dissenting voices is his only agenda.

He has sent a “questionnaire” to Republican candidates that is nothing short of a thinly veiled purity test to justify the Colorado Republican Party endorsing candidates in primary elections. He uses this “questionnaire” as a weapon against his opponent in the 5th Congressional District primary, Jeff Crank.

He asks “Do you denounce Americans for Prosperity (AFP) and the $70 million they raised to defeat President Donald Trump?” Crank worked for Americans for Prosperity when it spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build ground organizations to support Republican candidates across the nation. AFP’s mortal sin was to support another candidate other than Trump for the Republican presidential nomination this year.

Williams asks “Do you support a federal ban on abortion?” which is interesting since Trump himself opposes a federal ban on abortion.

He asks “Have you ever been a registered member of another party?” Perhaps Williams forgot, or probably doesn’t know, that President Ronald Reagan was a Democrat during his acting years and even led a union during that time, the Screen Actors Guild.

Republican U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard, who won two tough elections for the Senate in 1996 and 2002, was part of a Democratic family that switched to Republican when conservative Democratic U.S. Rep. Wayne Aspinall was defeated in a primary by a liberal professor in 1972. Perhaps Williams will retroactively censure Reagan and Allard as “RINOs,” Republicans in name only, which is his favorite slur for anyone who disagrees with him.

Williams apparently sees no problem with Trump who registered as a Republican in New York in 1987 but switched to being a Democrat in 2001 and remained a Democrat until 2009.

Williams is hell bent to steal the ability of 1.8 million unaffiliated voters, 48% of the electorate, from voting in Republican primary elections even though Republicans number only 900,000, just 24%, while there are 1.1 million Democrats, 27%.

Williams hired California attorney John Eastman and his local sidekick, stolen election conspiracist Randy Corporon, to go into federal district court to repeal Proposition 108, which was overwhelmingly passed by voters in 2016, giving unaffiliated voters the right to vote in primary elections. Eastman, who is on the verge of being disbarred in California, promoted the scheme to overturn the Electoral College and steal the 2020 election from Joe Biden.

A federal district court judge soundly rejected the Eastman-Corporon-Williams attempt to steal the right to vote of unaffiliated voters in the 2024 primary elections.

He asks, “Do you support only closed primaries for when the party decides its nominees?” and “Will you support all efforts by the Colorado GOP, and associated entities, to opt out of open primaries?”

Those “efforts” to opt out of primaries included Williams attempting to steal the votes of absent members of the Colorado Republican State Central Committee and forcibly casting those votes to opt out without the permission of those members.

He asks “What does election integrity mean to you?” Williams is immersed in stolen election conspiracy theories and contends there is no such thing as a fair election in Colorado. He appointed stolen election conspiracist Ron Hanks as the “election integrity chairman” for the state party. Hanks contends the Chinese stole Colorado’s electoral votes in 2020 when Trump was defeated by 14 points by Biden.

It must be a little awkward when they talk since Williams worked for a company that imported cheap Chinese goods while Hanks contends the Chinese stole the election from Trump.

The year-long tenure of Williams as state chairman has been nothing but one continuous inquisition to purge and purify the Colorado Republican Party of anyone who disagrees with him.