Principles should not be abandoned
Political commentator Hasan Piker recently appeared in a Mao jacket – a conspicuous tribute to the Chinese dictator whose regime was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people – before addressing college students. Around the same time, Melat Kiros, a Democratic Socialists of America candidate in Colorado, declared that America would stop "exploiting the world" only after the country elects enough immigrants from the Global South. That is more than a campaign slogan. It reflects an ideology that seeks to replace America's founding principles with an entirely ...
