The radicals won the Dem civil war well all pay the price

If you’re surprised, you haven’t been paying attention.Abdul El-Sayed is a “Defund the Police” socialist who has fantasized about putting an “ogre” (fellow Democrat John Fetterman) on a pike, stumped alongside a 9/11 apologist and constructed an entire campaign around insidious Jew-baiting amid a raging epidemic of antisemitism.He is also the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan after narrowly dispatching establishment favorite Haley Stevens in Tuesday’s primary contest.El-Sayed’s triumph marks not the beginning of the end for the party’s old guard, but the final nail in its coffin.After all, the civil war was over before the (relative) moderates ever started fighting it in earnest.From its inception onward, the rebels would accept only unconditional surrender from center-left  Democratic elders, who, in turn, appeased, placated and groveled before their sworn enemies, somehow mistaking them for a friendly faction that could deliver them victories without changing the party’s very nature.That El-Sayed may cost Democrats the seat he’s running for — and quite possibly control of Congress’ upper chamber for the next two years — is of little consequence to his supporters.Despite the vast ocean between Stevens’ and Republican nominee Mike Rogers’ politics, they share a worldview in which the United States is, at its core, a great nation built on principles that everyone can get behind. It’s that premise that El-Sayed’s supporters hope to extinguish once and for all — and they’re willing to lose the occasional election along the way to remake the country in their own ugly image.Make no mistake, either: they will lose elections.The last time a Republican won a Senate race in the Great Lakes State was 1994, yet Rogers may well pull it off in the year of our Lord 2026 with the albatrosses of a president whose approval rating is drowning 20,000 leagues under the sea and GOP majorities on Capitol Hill hanging around his neck.Two r...