Colorado primary delivers a warning conservatives shouldn’t ignore
By C.J. Garbo | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice
What happened in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District should get everyone’s attention.
Democratic socialist Melat Kiros just defeated Diana DeGette, a 15-term Democratic incumbent who has represented Denver for nearly three decades. This was not a conservative beating a liberal. This was the activist left defeating the Democratic establishment from inside its own party.
That matters.
The Democratic Party increasingly has no effective guardrails against its most radical elements. The fringe is no longer staying on the fringe. It is organizing, primarying incumbents, capturing safe seats, and moving ideas once considered extreme into the party’s mainstream.
That is dangerous for the country because democratic socialis...