If you squint, you can see them. They are signs that the Democratic Party understands historian Robert Conquest’s rule, which is: The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

In the Aug. 4 primary, Michigan’s Democratic Party will select its Senate candidate. Three stalwarts of the national party’s kamikaze caucus, two of them fresh from telling Maine’s Democrats whom to nominate for Senate, are now instructing Michiganders. They are Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who called Maine’s Graham Platner “my kind of man,” and Sen. Bernie Sanders, another Platner enthusiast. These two, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who flinched from Platner, have discovered a new paladin of progressivism.

Abdul El-Sayed is 41. In 2018, he lost the Democratic gubernatorial primary by 21 points to a centrist Democrat, Gretchen Whitmer, who is now completing her second term. Today, El-Sayed campaigns with Hasan Piker, a “Twitch streamer” (yes, that is a job description in today’s America) sympathetic to Hamas. Piker has apologized for having said “America deserved 9/11.” Today, El-Sayed says Israel is a “rogue state” guilty of “genocide.” He says,........

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