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Miranda Devine: Don’t let Abdul El-Sayed fool you — he and his DSA cronies are in prime position to take over the Democratic Party

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Abdul El-Sayed is the latest Islamo-socialist terrorist-sympathizer star of the Democrat Party, after squeaking to a win in the Michigan Senate primary Tuesday.

Although he underperformed his poll numbers and the predictions of his media boosters, the lockdown-loving health bureaucrat has accelerated the radical left’s conquest of the Democrat Party from within.

If El-Sayed can pull off a victory in November in the Midwest, in the swingiest of swing states, what will stop a Marxist heading for the White House?

This menacing hard-left takeover is disastrous for Democrats and frightening for America, but it is also a potential golden opportunity for the GOP — if they don’t screw it up, which is nowhere near certain.

El-Sayed has slyly distanced himself from his early roots in the Democratic Socialists of America faction of the party, and declares himself a “scientist” and not a socialist, but nobody is fooled, least of all the DSA.

Like his comrades, he has a vast trove of deleted social media posts expressing his true hard-left beliefs — including defunding the police (and its modern-day version of abolishing ICE) and prison abolition — as he tries to shape-shift into a harmless progressive palatable to the average fair-minded American fed up with politics as usual.

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The level of deception skills involved in this metamorphosis has pundits praising him as a “political athlete” and likening him to Bill Clinton.

But his extremism is not hard to detect, no matter how flowery the language disguising it.

In his first speech Wednesday morning after claiming victory, he issued a veiled threat to Republican opponent Mike Rogers:........

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