The summer’s collective uplift from our nation’s 250th birthday and the United States’ role in co-hosting the World Cup has collided with the ominous spread of socialism among the American left.The dangerous philosophy is no longer confined to Ivy League faculty lounges or deep-blue enclaves of New York City, either.
In next month’s primary in my home state of Michigan — a critical national battleground — Democrats could nominate Abdul El-Sayed for the U.S.Senate.El-Sayed may try to distance himself from the "socialist" label and his long-standing ties to the Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA, but his platform speaks for itself.
For starters, he not only boasts the support of prominent socialists Sen.Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., but has also recently campaigned with them in Michigan.Furthermore, he has gone out of his way to link himself to self-described democratic socialist and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Last summer, his campaign even ran ads declaring, "Zohran won.Abdul is next."Like the private jet-flying, multiple-home-owning Sanders, El-Sayed is a hypocrite.
He has demonized high earners while earning an income in 2025 that puts him squarely in the top 1%.He has also advocated for "Medicare for All" and railed against employer health plans while his wife allegedly operates a medical practice that appears not to accept Medicare or any insurance at all.SOCIALIST-BACKED DEM WHO RIPPED THE WEALTHY CRACKS STATE’S TOP 1%, TAX RETURNS SHOWBut perhaps most troubling is the radical economic agenda El-Sayed seeks to bring to Washington.
One staple of his stump speech is his criticism of "corporate oligopoly" and his demand for a "muscular" Federal Trade Commission, or FTC.On that front, El-Sayed’s campaign draws directly from the anti-business orthodoxy pushed by Lina Khan, former chair of the FTC under President Joe Biden and current chair of the board of the New York City Economic Development ...