In many ways, Melat Kiros epitomizes the winds of change sweeping over the Democratic Party.
Kiros is a 29-year-old political newcomer who is disillusioned with the system, who calls ending aid to Israel “the moral question of our time,” and who is backed by the Democratic Socialists of America.
And on Tuesday, she handily defeated a Democratic incumbent who’s held her seat since the year before Kiros was born — Rep. Diana DeGette, of Colorado’s First District.
“This isn’t just about replacing one generation of leaders with another,” Kiros told me in an interview last month. “It’s about replacing it with moral clarity,
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