The soul of the Democratic Party is on the line in Michigan

Say this much for Nancy Pelosi: She hates a loser.In an election cycle full of high-stakes contests, Michigan’s Senate race stands alone.Its outcome could very well be decisive in the battle for control of Congress’ upper chamber — and the chasm between the two candidates’ character and values is cavernous.Republican Mike Rogers is an ex-congressman who distinguished himself as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee by extending a hand across the aisle.

While Rogers was busy with this vital, bipartisan work, Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed was signing open letters urging the explicitly anti-American, Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated would-be dictator of Egypt to crack down even harder on his critics.Most importantly of all, though, the Rogers-El-Sayed showdown may determine whether the Democratic Party holds on to its very soul.El-Sayed’s campaign has left no doubt as to his continued ideological extremism.During the Democratic primary, he made a point of stumping alongside Hasan Piker, the antisemitic, nepo-baby 9/11 apologist.At the time, he argued it was “critical” that Democrats embrace Piker; nowadays, he bristles over questions about their relationship, dismissing him as a mere “streamer in California.”But the record shows that they still share the same revolting worldview.Piker faults Jews themselves for the terrifying rise in antisemitic incidents across the country and world.

And El-Sayed embraced the same logic after the foiled terrorist attack on a Wolverine State synagogue earlier this year.Piker has developed a strange new respect for Tucker Carlson amidst his descent into Protocols of the Elders of Zion-land.And El-Sayed is featuring Carlson in campaign ads.Piker once declared that “America deserved 9/11.”And El-Sayed once suggested that America’s response to it was worse than the events of that sad September morning.The politician has tried to grant himself a bit more plausible deniability than the shock-jock, but on...