Nationwide, Democrats elect and embrace socialists who hate America

Socialism is a cancer and it’s metastasized.Democratic Socialists of America candidates are no longer relegated to dense urban areas on the East and West coasts.Extremists are on the rise in virtually every Democratic Party stronghold in the country.And those who believe that DSA candidates are merely dispatching a few “moderate” Democrats have it wrong.In Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros just knocked out near-30-year incumbent Rep.Diana DeGette, a prominent member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.DeGette supported an array of hard-left positions, including eliminating ICE, socializing medicine, and authoritarian “green” energy mandates.A decade ago, there would have been virtually no lawmakers to the ideological left of DeGette in the House.Next session, there will be at least a dozen.DeGette’s real sin, of course, was failing to adopt the interminable, unhinged anti-Israel and anti-American rhetoric that’s become central to DSA messaging.While Kiros entertains every antiquated and failed collectivist economic idea imaginable, it wasn’t affordability or expensive housing that lifted her campaign among largely well-heeled urban primary voters.It was her obsessive antagonism toward the tiny Jewish state that excited activists.Like other DSA members, Kiros is a Hamas apologist, justifying the rapes, murders and kidnappings of young women and children on Oct.

7 as an “inevitable” outcome of “occupation.”When a terrorist named Mohamed Sabry Soliman threw Molotov cocktails at a group of peaceful Boulder demonstrators advocating for Hamas to release hostages held in Gaza — eventually taking the life an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor — Kiros prevaricated and refused to call it an antisemitic attack.To do so would have surely turned off many of her supporters.In her victory speech, Kiros — who was fired from New York law firm Sidley Austin for posting a defense of Columbia “protesters” who ta...