Jay Evensen: Why a Trump 'Bears Ears' decision won't be the last word

SALT LAKE CITY —Seven months ago, after a bitter public hearing on Utah’s Capitol Hill was cut short because Republican lawmakers didn’t like how the boisterous crowd expressed its support of former President Barack Obama’s version of a Bears Ears Monument, I made a prediction.Turn the issue around and you would find the players changing sides and adopting each other’s lines, like some dramatic exercise in an acting class. “The American political landscape has