El-Sayeds win for the left: Letters to the Editor Aug. 07, 2026

To my Democratic friends: It’s time to rid your party of the Democratic Socialists of America and its allies before it’s too late (“Final nail in coffin,” Issac Schorr, Aug.6).Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan shows the power of the DSA, even in a purple state.This is not the party of Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy.

It’s time for former President Barack Obama, Sen.Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Democratic establishment to grow a spine and show these radicals the door, before it’s too late.Kenneth FitzgeraldHicksvilleOne need only look at Russia to see what Marxism brings.

Players like Abdul El-Sayed and Mayor Mamdani led by Coach Bernie Sanders and foul-mouthed cheerleader Hasan Piker have an agenda that includes the end of capitalism, and the elimination of Israel.If Main Street America doesn’t wake up by November, it may happen.Mel YoungWest Dover, Vt.FDR stood up to Hitler.

Harry Truman stood up to Stalin.JFK stood up to Nikita Khrushchev.

They were Democrats.Democrats today won’t even stand up to the radicals in their party who are openly anti-police, antisemitic, anti-Constitution and anti-American sovereignty.They are committing political suicide.Joe Zeloof Hamilton, NJThe Democrats are seeing their Biden-era policies come home to roost.

In opening the floodgates to illegal immigration, they created a voting population that votes radical left and has no sense of America’s history or the source of its greatness.Democrats — and not Republicans, as they intended — are losing their hold on American voters.Be careful what you wish for.Helaine SmithManhattanIt is a great day for Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, because the Democrats have shot themselves in the foot.With El-Sayed’s nomination, a Democratic Senate seat is likely to flip, making a Democratic takeover of the majority all but impossible.

Michigan isn’t Massachusetts or California — it’s a swing state.General election voters include larg...