In 30 days, this country marks 25 years since 19 men murdered nearly 3,000 of us on a Tuesday morning that started like any other. A quarter century. Long enough that some of the people reading this column weren’t alive for it. Long enough that the raw, unified grief of that September has faded into something more like a civic ritual — a moment of silence, a name-reading, a flag at half-staff, and then back to whatever we were doing.

I bring this up not for the ceremony of it, but because of what’s happening in the weeks leading up to it, in real American cities, involving real American politics, and it should be setting off alarm bells louder than it apparently is.

Abdul El-Sayed just won the Democratic Senate nomination after campaigning alongside Hasan Piker, a podcaster whose commentary has made him a lightning rod for accusations of anti-Israel extremism and apologetics for terror groups.

Normally you win a primary and start talking to the voters you’ll need in November. El-Sayed had that opportunity. He went the other direction.

Asked directly about the Piker association on Meet the Press, he shrugged it off: “I’m less concerned now with who I’m campaigning with, a lot more concerned about who I’m campaigning to.” Then he said it again, nearly word for word.

Hugh Hewitt called it the El-Sayed/Piker ticket without the sugarcoating. El-Sayed........

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