Michigan Dems have a chance to slap down the soaring far left and save their party
On Aug.4, Michigan voters have a chance to help save the Democratic Party by choosing Rep.
Haley Stevens over Abdul El-Sayed as Dems’ nominee for the US Senate.The far left has been on a roll in primaries across the nation, not just in deep-red House districts but in some statewide contests; now is the time for sanity to triumph.No question that El-Sayed is the left’s choice: He’s endorsed by Bernie Sanders, AOC and the party’s entire Israel-hating wing, as well as the local Working Families Party.An MD who never pursued a license to practice medicine, he’s spent his adult life in academia and government; aside from demonizing the Jewish state, his core issue is Medicare for All, the Sanders prescription for nationalized health care, and he also calls to abolish ICE.Stevens is a different kind of apparatchik, working in party and politics-adjacent policy jobs for her entire career.She’s always been solidly pro-Israel, while emphasizing other issues like support for restoring America’s industrial might and other centrist Democratic priorities; she’s endorsed by establishment figures such as Sen.Chuck Schumer — and just got a key endorsement from popular Gov.
Gretchen Whitmer.Most important: El-Sayed is utterly vile.After the foiled terrorist attack on a Jewish pre-school at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield this spring, he staged a press conference with extremist podcaster Hasan Piker to justify the atrocity: “Hurt people do hurt people, and the circumstances happening 6,000 miles away can affect the lives that we live here.” This, because the would-be killer was Lebanese and Israel was fighting to defend itself from Hezbollah. June saw him take the stage at the opening of a local mosque with Fadhel Al-Sahlani, a radical imam and Holocaust denier operating out of Queens, to offer “hearty congratulations” to the mosque’s new imam Hassan al-Qazwini, who has eulogized Hezbollah fighters and made openly antisemitic remarks. Subscr...