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.
That was a literal armed uprising attempting to overthrow the government. “Insurgency” is a perfectly valid term. What else do you call it when a mob of people engages in open rebellion?
Their point was that, by using the term for far less severe things, the media are devaluing it. The term is valid for the violent mob, but not for the swing in votes they’re using it for.