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If you\u2019re surprised, you haven\u2019t been paying attention.<\/p>\n

Abdul El-Sayed is a \u201cDefund the Police\u201d socialist who has fantasized about putting an \u201cogre\u201d (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.<\/p>\n

Read more Far-left Michigan Dem Abdul El-Sayed beats Rep. Haley Stevens in record-breaking Senate primary<\/a><\/p>\n

He is also the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan after narrowly dispatching establishment favorite Haley Stevens in Tuesday\u2019s primary contest.<\/p>\n

El-Sayed\u2019s triumph marks not the beginning of the end for the party\u2019s old guard, but the final nail in its coffin.<\/p>\n

After all, the civil war was over before the (relative) moderates ever started fighting it in earnest.<\/p>\n

From its inception onward, the rebels would accept only unconditional surrender from center-left\u00a0 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\u2019s very nature.<\/p>\n

That El-Sayed may cost Democrats the seat he\u2019s running for \u2014 and quite possibly control of Congress\u2019 upper chamber for the next two years \u2014 is of little consequence to his supporters.<\/p>\n

Despite the vast ocean between Stevens\u2019 and Republican nominee Mike Rogers\u2019 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s that premise that El-Sayed\u2019s supporters hope to extinguish once and for all \u2014 and they\u2019re willing to lose the occasional election along the way to remake the country in their own ugly image.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake, either: they will lose elections.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Two recent surveys conducted by the Glengariff Group and the Michigan Information & Research Service peg Rogers\u2019 lead over El-Sayed at ten and three points, respectively.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, next door in Wisconsin, Francesca Hong (of \u201cCancel Thanksgiving\u201d fame) appears poised to win the Democratic nomination to serve as its next chief executive.<\/p>\n

The Democrat she\u2019s seeking to replace, Governor Tony Evers, has already publicly expressed doubt about her prospects of prevailing against Republican Tom Tiffany.<\/p>\n

A new Manhattan Institute survey tells us why: the far-left\u2019s agenda on a wide range of issues \u2014 from welfare, to immigration, to crime \u2014 remains wildly unpopular among the general electorate.<\/p>\n

Read more Hasan Piker has foul-mouthed meltdown over tight Michigan Senate primary: \u2018Islamophobic pieces of s\u2013t\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

The terrifying qualifier is this: for now.<\/p>\n

What those prematurely celebrating El-Sayed and Hong\u2019s potential defeats in November don\u2019t realize is that these radicals and the voting bloc behind them are after bigger fish than statewide midterm races in the Rust Belt.<\/p>\n

Of course they\u2019d prefer to take oaths of office come January, but they\u2019re already running ahead of schedule.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve already changed Democratic politics forever by anathematizing the capital-L Liberalism of the 20th and early 21st centuries, let alone moderation or a \u201cthird way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just ask California state senator Scott Wiener, who castigated Israel for carrying out a faux genocide only to be hoisted by his own petard.<\/p>\n

Or Rep. Adam Smith, who folded like a cheap chair to activists\u2019 demands after they threatened the lives of himself and his family.<\/p>\n

Or Stevens, who held a campaign event at a cider house on Monday only to have the taproom issue a statement professing to be \u201cheartbroken\u201d and promising to be \u201cmore vigilant\u201d moving forward.<\/p>\n

No, really. They said that.<\/p>\n

One of America\u2019s two major parties now belongs to these veritable psychopaths, whom the far-left has spent a decade programming to obsess over a murderers\u2019 row of moral panics.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrans people are being erased! Israel is committing war crimes! America is complicit! No human is illegal! Abolish the police! Abolish the prisons! Everybody is racist, whether they know it or not!\u201d<\/p>\n

These aren\u2019t the eye-rolling inducing shrieks of the fringe, they\u2019re the tenets of one of America\u2019s two major parties\u2019 platform.<\/p>\n

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The nature of American politics is such that the pendulum is bound to swing in their new vessel\u2019s direction eventually, regardless of how voters might feel about their program in a vacuum.<\/p>\n

When it does, it will be the likes of El-Sayed, Hong, Darializa Avila Chevalier and Zohran Mamdani who delight in the spoils.<\/p>\n

Read more Crazy-eyed teen dressed as clown allegedly killed elderly man \u2014 and whispered \u2018I\u2019ve been looking for you\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

And the rest of us who pay the price.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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