Say this much for Nancy Pelosi: She hates a loser.
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She → say → loser
In an election cycle full of high-stakes contests, Michigan’s Senate race stands alone.
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race → stand → contests
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.
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who → distinguish → 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.
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dictator → sign → critics
Most importantly of all, though, the Rogers-El-Sayed showdown may determine whether the Democratic Party holds on to its very soul.
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Party → determine → soul
El-Sayed’s campaign has left no doubt as to his continued ideological extremism.
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campaign → leave → extremism
During the Democratic primary, he made a point of stumping alongside Hasan Piker, the antisemitic, nepo-baby 9/11 apologist.
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he → make → Piker
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.”
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he → argue → California
But the record shows that they still share the same revolting worldview.
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they → show → worldview
Piker faults Jews themselves for the terrifying rise in antisemitic incidents across the country and world.
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Piker → fault → country
And El-Sayed embraced the same logic after the foiled terrorist attack on a Wolverine State synagogue earlier this year.
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Sayed → embrace → synagogue
Piker has developed a strange new respect for Tucker Carlson amidst his descent into Protocols of the Elders of Zion-land.
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Piker → develop → land
And El-Sayed is featuring Carlson in campaign ads.
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Sayed → feature → ads
Piker once declared that “America deserved 9/11.”
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America → declare → 9/11
And El-Sayed once suggested that America’s response to it was worse than the events of that sad September morning.
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response → suggest → morning
The politician has tried to grant himself a bit more plausible deniability than the shock-jock, but only barely.
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politician → try → jock
The through-line is clear: If the Jews aren’t to blame, then the United States is.
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States → blame → ?
And as for radical Islam, its misdeeds can always be explained away as a byproduct of one of those two favorite boogeymen.
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misdeeds → explain → boogeymen
When they’re not being outright celebrated, of course.
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they → celebrate → course
That someone like El-Sayed could win a major Democratic nomination is of concern.
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win → win → concern
That so much of the party has eagerly lined up behind him is a five-alarm fire.
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lined → line → him
Barack Obama and his Pod Bro groupies, MS NOW and The Bulwark, Chuck Schumer and Elissa Slotkin — they all bent the knee faster than El-Sayed could find a new problem to pin on Israel.
But the ever-pragmatic Pelosi is balking.
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Pelosi → bend → Israel
After calling El-Sayed and Zohran Mamdani’s views on the world’s only Jewish state “wrong” during one recent interview, Pelosi mused, “This new person in Michigan, we’ll see if he gets elected.”
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he → call → Michigan
And while she later clarified that she hopes he does, her comments spoke to a larger truth.
Sane, patriotic Democrats’ chances of taking back their party depend on El-Sayed falling short next week.
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Sayed → clarify → party
The left, by its very nature, pushes itself toward extremism.
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left → push → extremism
Progressives believe themselves to be on the right side of history, soldiers fighting for a utopia that only suppressible bigotry and greed — rather than immutable human nature — could ever block.
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bigotry → believe → that
That poisonous misimpression, paired with the ambition of self-serving conformists, is what’s empowered the antisemitic, anti-American, men-are-women-and-women-are-men wing of the Democratic Party.
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women → pair → Party
The moderates don’t stand a chance — unless they’re able to teach their intra-party rivals a hard, irrefutable lesson about the consequences of their self-radicalization.
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they → stand → radicalization
If there’s one thing that institutional Democrats care about, it’s power.
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it → ’ → that
Pelosi despised Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez until she proved herself a national force, at which point the old hand became the upstart’s biggest fan.
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hand → despise → Cortez
Graham Platner retained the party’s support until it became clear he was going to get thrashed in a general election.
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he → retain → election
Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Ilhan Omar; misogyny, manslaughter, and fraud — none of it mattered to the party because these knaves won elections.
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knaves → matter → elections
Still, El-Sayed’s candidacy has haunted Democrats of conscience.
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candidacy → haunt → conscience
His primary opponent, Haley Stevens, is holding his feet to the fire and waffling on her support.
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opponent → hold → support
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) has demanded that El-Sayed disavow an outside group’s ad repeating antisemitic talking points that echo the candidate’s own rhetoric.
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that → demand → rhetoric
Even Pelosi, the ruthless, hyperpartisan operator, conceded that El-Sayed’s failings are moral ones.
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failings → concede → ?
But without a galvanizing event to grant them the courage to take a real stand, these forces stand little chance of reversing their party’s precipitous decline.
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forces → grant → decline
El-Sayed’s defeat in a critical race amid an otherwise cresting Blue Wave would be just such an event.
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defeat → crest → Wave
As goes Michigan, so go the Democrats.
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Democrats → go → ?
And that’s why every red-blooded American — and especially those invested in Team Donkey’s future — ought to be pulling for Michigan to reject El-Sayed on Tuesday.
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Michigan → ’ → Tuesday
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