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.
At best - okay, granting a ludicrous amount of good intent - at best that’s a delusional position from someone who hasn’t been near weapons fire in decades if ever. What does our illustrious professor think WAR is? Huuh! Good gawd, y’all.
I never said I agree with his position in its entirety. I even called it hamfisted in places. I think the three opposing opinions in the other piece I linked were much better.
But that doesn’t change the fact that the original was not a pro-russian piece, and the guardian is not a pro-russian outlet; nor a billionaire-sponsored media outlet, to bring this discussion back to where it started before you led us down this trail of red herrings.