On June 30, another proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), not the Democrat Party, 29-year-old Melat Kiros, defeated a so-called moderate, establishment Democrat in a Democrat Party primary election.

Far-left socialists beating mainstream Democrats is not an aberration nor an anomaly. It is an alarming trend that continues to gain momentum.

So far, this primary season, radical democratic socialists have upset several formidable incumbents and/or candidates endorsed and supported by the Democrat Party’s political arm—the Democratic National Committee—in California, Pennsylvania, Maine, New York, the District of Columbia, and now, Colorado.

The geographic location of the most recent DSA triumph matters. Colorado is deep within the heralded heartland. Colorado, aside from loony liberals in places like Aspen, is supposed to be immune from anti-American, democratic socialism. But such is not the case these days.

To be clear, Kiros’s opponent, 15-term incumbent U.S. Democrat Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-1), deserves to be described as “dumb” because she assumed that embracing some, but not all, of the super-progressive policies that have become the de facto agenda of the DSA would warrant another term in Congress.

Since 1997, DeGette’s policy posture has become more progressive. She has embraced climate alarmism. She is anti-ICE and pro-gun control. She even served on the prosecution during the second impeachment trial of President Trump.

Alas, for DeGette, none of that mattered. She is not officially on board the democratic socialist bandwagon. Thus, she had to go.

Her replacement, who is virtually assured of winning the midterm election,........

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