Thirty minutes after being sworn in as president of the University of Michigan’s student government, Summit Louth was already back onstage campaigning for someone else.

The rising senior, a leading figure in the ascendant Human Rights Party, had just won office on promises to resist immigration enforcement on campus and force the university to divest from companies he says are “complicit” in genocide in Gaza. Now he was jogging across a stage to cheers beneath banners reading, “Abdul for U.S. Senate.”

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Louth was there to speak at an April 7 campaign rally for Abdul el Sayed, joining socialist streamer Hasan Piker and Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA).

That night, Louth addressed the crowd in his “personal capacity as a student.”

“Abdul has been calling out corporations and oligarchs instead of taking money from them,” he said. “I need you to reach out to Abdul’s team and volunteer.”

Four months later, Abdul el Sayed won the Democratic primary for Michigan’s open Senate seat by a margin of just 1 point. 

Young voters and students helped propel el Sayed over the finish line. He won 13 of the 15 counties with the highest share of degree holders. Yet the Democratic nominee for Senate lost all 15 Michigan counties with higher concentrations of working-class voters — the supposed recipients of his socialist campaign promises. In Washtenaw County, home to the University of Michigan, el Sayed trumped Democratic primary opponent Rep. Haley Stevens by 25 points. He beat Stevens by 23 points in Ingham County, where Michigan State University is located.

College campuses have become some of the most fertile organizing grounds for the country’s socialist insurgency. The........

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