She built her campaign on Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, a $21-an-hour federal minimum wage, federally funded \u201csocial housing,\u201d and the claim that single-payer healthcare \u201cpays for itself,\u201d a line Democratic socialists have been repeating for a decade without ever producing a functioning national model that proves it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/discernreport.com\/dsa-marxist-who-blamed-us-for-9-11-defeats-15-term-democrat-in-colorado-primary\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n By Harvey Jones<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diana DeGette survived fifteen terms in Congress, two impeachment trials, and three decades of Denver politics. She did not survive a 29-year-old democratic socialist who thinks America had 9\/11 coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Melat Kiros defeated the incumbent Democrat in Colorado\u2019s 1st Congressional District primary on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press, capping a stunning collapse for a lawmaker who first took office the same year Kiros was born.<\/strong> With the vast majority of the vote counted, Kiros led DeGette by roughly five points, with CU Regent Wanda James trailing well behind in third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The result was not close enough to blame on turnout quirks. It was a repudiation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kiros, a Democratic Socialists of America member and former corporate attorney, had already drawn scrutiny for describing Hamas\u2019s October 7 massacre as \u201can inevitable consequence of apartheid, of occupation, decades of occupation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n That framing is common enough on the activist left that it barely raises eyebrows in certain circles anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What should have ended her campaign came next. Denver\u2019s 9News anchor Kyle Clark asked Kiros directly whether she believed the September 11 attacks were likewise \u201cthe inevitable consequence of American foreign policy.\u201d She did not hedge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cInevitable in the sense that we destabilized a lot of the Middle East, which led people to believe that another act of violence was the only response,\u201d Kiros said. \u201cOur responsibility is to get rid of those conditions that lead to violence in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Socialist candidate Melat Kiros, who was born in Ethiopia, is about to beat 15-term incumbent Diana DeGette in the Democrat primary for Colorado’s 1st Congressional District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here she is saying that 9\/11 was America’s fault. pic.twitter.com\/2uHNYfeASX<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Nearly three thousand Americans died on September 11, 2001, at the hands of men who chose mass murder. Kiros describes that choice as a predictable byproduct of American policy rather than an act of evil committed by people responsible for their own decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is worth sitting with what that logic actually does: it relocates moral responsibility from the terrorist to the target. Applied consistently, there is no atrocity that couldn\u2019t be explained away as the inevitable consequence of something the victim did first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clark also asked Kiros whether the 2025 firebombing attack on a Boulder gathering supporting Israeli hostages was an act of antisemitism. She declined to say. \u201cI don\u2019t know what was in the heart of the perpetrator,\u201d she said, adding that she didn\u2019t know what the victims believed either \u2014 despite their reason for gathering being publicly stated at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n None of it stopped her. Kiros trounced DeGette at the Denver Democratic assembly in April, taking 67 percent of delegate votes to the incumbent\u2019s 33 percent \u2014 a margin that nearly kept a fifteen-term congresswoman off her own party\u2019s primary ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She built her campaign on Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, a $21-an-hour federal minimum wage, federally funded \u201csocial housing,\u201d and the claim that single-payer healthcare \u201cpays for itself,\u201d a line Democratic socialists have been repeating for a decade without ever producing a functioning national model that proves it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Melat Kiros (DSA) wants to abolish ICE and give full citizenship to every illegal migrant (over 20 million)<\/p>\n\n\n\n She just won the primary in Colorado pic.twitter.com\/MEJ11pILrm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Melat](\"https:\/\/discernreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Melat-Kiros.jpg\")
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