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Abdul El-Sayed’s Socialism by Another Name

Abdul El-Sayed would like voters to know that he is not a socialist.

The Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan made that clear during a July debate. “When it comes to the question of socialism, I’m not a socialist,” he said.

But what a politician calls himself matters far less than what he wants to do.

And when you look at El-Sayed’s platform, it is difficult to miss how much of it overlaps with the agenda of the socialist Left.

That matters because El-Sayed is not running for city council in Detroit. He is seeking a Senate seat in one of the country’s most important swing states, where he will face Republican Mike Rogers in November.

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His candidacy has also drawn support from some of the most prominent figures on the far-left wing of the Democrat Party. Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed him, while Zohran Mamdani publicly congratulated him after his primary victory.

The New York mayor won while openly identifying as a Democratic Socialist. But El-Sayed may be offering the left a different formula: keep much of the agenda while concealing the socialist label.

Consider what........

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