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The radicals won the Dem civil war — we’ll all pay the price

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If you’re surprised, you haven’t been paying attention.

Abdul El-Sayed is a “Defund the Police” socialist who has fantasized about putting an “ogre” (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.

He is also the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan after narrowly dispatching establishment favorite Haley Stevens in Tuesday’s primary contest.

El-Sayed’s triumph marks not the beginning of the end for the party’s old guard, but the final nail in its coffin.

After all, the civil war was over before the (relative) moderates ever started fighting it in earnest.

From its inception onward, the rebels would accept only unconditional surrender from center-left  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’s very nature.

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