Someone should really have a serious conversation with the chieftains of the Democratic Party. It’s high time for a pulse check—a true heart-to-heart.
Are the events of the past few months really what they had in mind? Perhaps circumstances simply got away from them. A few candidates are demonstrably out of step with the Democratic zeitgeist, in no way reflecting the image the party wishes to project.
It’s possible in these polarized times that a candidate for higher office goes his or her own way and catches an electoral wave that turns longshots into political unicorns. A controversial maverick runs a campaign as an unapologetic outsider. His or her glaring deficiencies are bizarrely overlooked by the electorate. The party’s platform is trounced. They emerge victoriously from primaries where the new left has moved the goalpost outside the stadium.
Since House and Senate seats are so precious, given the slight numerical margins in the bicameral legislatures, party leaders bite bullets and choose electoral seats over partisan purity.
But perhaps party leadership deserves the benefit of the doubt. Maybe this is precisely what they want to see happen. After all, harikari is such a gloomy game plan. Would they sit passively and watch a mass leap of faith featuring Democrats diving off cliffs just to satisfy some demented DEI agenda?
You think such a query is unnecessary? Our nation is undergoing a monumental shift in political culture. Republicans certainly have image problems owing in large part to the outsized authoritarian impulses and actions of Donald Trump. But Democrats are not only endorsing and choosing quasi-Nazis and actual Islamists at the ballot box. They seem to have also adopted their suicidal tendencies.
At least they’re not using actual explosives—yet.
Today’s Democratic avant-garde—represented by the many positions they have staked out and candidates they have anointed—was once politically out-of-bounds. Any number of things they had once said or done were disqualifying political liabilities. Not only wouldn’t they have received the party’s blessing as standard bearers. They would have been disowned as voters.
But not today. Let’s look at this roster straight out of Madame Tussaud’s Chamber of Electoral Horrors. Hopefully, for Democrats, the wax will melt before election day.
In Maine, Graham Platner, an oyster fisherman and former marine, sported a Nazi tattoo on his chest for 15 years without, implausibly, knowing its origins or meaning. It depicts a skull and crossbones that was fashionable among Hitler’s SS both before and during World War II.
Platner also can’t really explain some of his past social media posts—since deleted—in which he claimed to be a communist, referred to the police as “bastards,” and opined that white people in rural areas were both “stupid and racist.”
Way to secure the vote of the common man.
Platner’s alleged behavior toward women is at an altogether higher level of self-sabotage. Sexting with multiple women while he was married. Reports on “unsettling” behavior and physical abuse. Whatever happened to the Democratic Party’s #MeToo mantra? Aren’t we supposed to unquestionably “Believe Survivors” and cancel the likes of Woody Allen and Brett Kavanaugh from public life?
Platner’s running for the U.S. Senate! How is he the frontrunner to unseat Maine’s mainstay Republican senator, Susan Collins?
The Michigan senatorial race is improbably worse. Abdul El-Sayed has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood—that means Hamas! He once supported former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood leader, whose removal from office made the United States State Department exhale a sigh of relief.
Today, Egypt won’t accept any of Gaza’s refugees precisely because they are brothers and sisters of the Brotherhood. But Michigan Democrats are seemingly fine with Brother El-Sayed?!
Egypt won’t accept any of Gaza’s refugees precisely because they are brothers and sisters of the Brotherhood. But Michigan Democrats are seemingly fine with Brother El-Sayed?!
He has declared the Israeli government to be as “evil” as Hamas. One of his political handlers is Linda Sarsour, who has praised the radical extremist imam Siraj Wahhaj, who calls for jihad. El-Sayed has also campaigned with online content creator Hasan Piker, whose anti-Israel commentary makes Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens look positively rabbinic by comparison.
Adam Hamawy, 56, an Egyptian-born physician running for Congress as the Democratic frontrunner in New Jersey, was once a defense witness for Omar Abdel Rahman, “the Blind Sheikh” responsible for the first attempt to bring down the World Trade Center with a bomb in 1993. He, too, is backed by Hasan Piker.
During the Blind Sheikh’s trial in 1995, Hamawy was privy to calls to wage jihad against the United States. So damaging was his relationship with the World Trade Center’s bombers, he lied under oath. Recently, he has stated that if elected to Congress he would do everything possible to eliminate Israel’s vaunted air-defense system, the Iron Dome. After all, possessing anti-missile weaponry is terribly unfair to terrorists who wish for their rockets aimed at Israeli civilians to hit their intended targets.
It gets better—no, actually worse. This congressional candidate once interned for the Benevolence International Foundation, a front for terrorism (designated by both the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.N. Security Council) and a financier for Al-Qaeda.
At his campaign’s victory party last week, Hamawy reportedly led his roomful of supporters in that lovely Islamic sing-along: “Allahu Akbar,” recited three times.
New York City’s Islamist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, whose very presence has emboldened all of these anti-Zionist, anti-American Democratic Party candidates, just endorsed Darializa Avila Chevalier, yet another Democratic Socialist with a yen for jihad. She is running for a congressional seat from New York.
Her skeletons are not even in her closet! They came out years ago. She once referred to President Joe Biden as a “rapist” and “war criminal.” She has no affection for fellow Democrat Kamala Harris, either.
She openly refers to the United States in her social feeds as a “disgrace,” has called for abolishing the police and ICE and even for the elimination of prisons. Naturally she intends to vote to discontinue military aid to Israel.
Aisha Wahab, a state senator and rising Democratic Socialist Islamist, is running for Congress in Northern California. In Georgia, Ruwa Romman, who presently serves in the state’s House of Representatives—the first Muslim woman of Palestinian heritage to do so—is running in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Both are progressive on social policy, ambivalent about America, and medieval on Jews.
Abbas Alawieh is running to represent Dearborn in the Michigan state Senate—yes, Dearborn, where Muslims comprise the city’s majority and where every city councilperson, and its mayor, have Islamist sensibilities. Similar coalitions exist in various cities in Michigan, Minnesota and New Jersey.
It looks as though the red-green alliance is here to stay, and that Democratic leadership may have quite intentionally entered all of these races riding the same America- and Israel-hating horse. Democrats always considered themselves to be at the vanguard of the cultural elite. Today they are officially slumming in the same political precincts that have sunk societies all throughout the West.
It looks as though the red-green alliance is here to stay, and that Democratic leadership may have quite intentionally entered all of these races riding the same America- and Israel-hating horse. Democrats always considered themselves to be at the vanguard of the cultural elite. Today they are officially slumming in the same political precincts that have sunk societies all throughout the West.
Bernie Sanders and AOC either know something that has eluded the rational rest of us, or there is a hill they wish to die on, and it’s not the same City on a Hill that has always stood as the model of a moral example for what a nation should look like for the entire world.
