The democratic socialist Melat Kiros unseated the long-serving US representative Diana DeGette in Colorado’s primary elections held on Tuesday, the latest in a string of high-profile victories for the party’s insurgent left.
The Associated Press reported that Kiros had defeated DeGette for the Democratic nomination in the deep-blue first congressional district centered on Denver. Kiros’s triumph came a week after New York voters unseated two Democratic congressional incumbents and replaced a third who was retiring with candidates who had campaigned on standing up to Israel amid accusations that it was carrying out a genocide in Gaza.
That’s what I’m worried about with these handful of Democratic Socialist primary victories. All it takes is one or two embarrassing moments, and the whole project will be smeared.
Take Darializa Avila Chevalier for example. She blamed NATO for Russia invading Ukraine, and she recently refused to say that murderers should be incarcerated. The interviewer gave her three chances, and she filibustered with Kamala-esque word salad each time. Hopefully she has the sense to cut that kooky shit out now that the spotlight is on her.
Sounds like talking to an average ml user. She’s representative of the kind of people calling Bernie Sanders a centrist zionist.