Holiday-Hating Socialist Loses Wisconsin Primary After Democrats Decide They Prefer Someone Who Doesn't Want To Cancel Turkey Day

If King Kong married Francesca Hong, she would be Hong Kong

WASHINGTON — In a shocking upset that has left progressive activists wondering how the working class could possibly reject pure socialist purity, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley narrowly defeated Democratic socialist/communist Francesca "Dragon Lady" Hong in Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary Tuesday night. 

[H/T The New York Post]

This happened despite polls that had confidently predicted Hong would cruise to victory by double digits despite her history of calling for canceling the cops and Thanksgiving.

Crowley’s campaign said the 37-year-old state legislator and card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America called Crowley early Wednesday to concede the race. Hong trailed her rival by more than 3,200 votes out of more than 787,000 ballots cast as of 6 a.m. ET, a margin of 0.41 percentage points.

Under Wisconsin law, Hong could have requested a recount since she trailed by under one percentage point, but would have had to pay for it since her deficit was greater than 0.25 percentage points. State law does not provide for automatic recounts in close races, which is probably for the best given how progressive math usually works. And besides, she would have probably lost because most people know how suck-worthy socialism is.

Crowley, 40, [no relation to Candy Crowley] was the late choice of Wisconsin’s Democratic establishment after Lt. Gov Sara Rodriguez and her predecessor Mandela Barnes dropped out of the race in recent weeks. 

Crowley had initially dropped out and endorsed Rodriguez last month, but re-entered the race in an effort to stop the socialist Hong after Barnes quit. Apparently even Democratic power brokers drew the line at nominating someone who once treated America’s founding holidays like a problematic Instagram post.

“To Francesca [Hong], Kelda [Roys], Joel [Brennan] and every candidate who shared their vision for Wisconsin, thank you. They challenged all of us to think bigger about what our state can become,” Crowley’s campaign manager Garren Randolph said in a statement name-checking his candidate’s primary rivals.

“From day one, this campaign has been about what comes next for Wisconsin: making life more affordable, strengthening our schools, creating good-paying jobs, and making sure opportunity reaches every corner of our state,” he added.“Now, David is focused on bringing people together, earning the support of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and anyone who believes Wisconsin is at its best when we work together and deliver results. David is ready to get back to work, build a broad coalition, and win in November.” 

“Our team campaigned clean, our souls are intact and we really made meaningful change for the progressive movement,” Hong’s campaign manager Becky Cooper said after she conceded, while the candidate herself told supporters Tuesday night in Madison: “We have built something that will change politics forever.” 

Changing politics forever apparently includes losing to a moderate after years of faculty-lounge radicalism. Crowley, who will face GOP Rep. Tom Tiffany in the November general election, would be the Badger State’s first ever black governor. 

“I am so proud of David; he’s the future of our Party, and I can’t wait for him to be our next governor. For now, we polka. Tomorrow, we’re back at work to win,” outgoing Democratic Gov. Tony Evers wrote on X early Wednesday. [Imagine Crowley doing a polka.]

“Tom Tiffany, we’ll see you in November.” 

Hong, who campaigned on hiking taxes for the rich, was snapped wearing black Air Jordan sneakers with a blue jacket and matching heart-printed socks while casting her ballot on Tuesday. The sneakers can retail online for $300, which is quite the look for a former dishwasher, line cook, and chef who dropped out of the University of Wisconsin and now lectures others about the working class. 

The DSA comrade had in recent weeks found herself backtracking in media interviews from past statements in favor of abolishing police departments and canceling Thanksgiving Day. She even railed against Valentine’s Day. This shows us her brilliance by declaring war on chocolate, flowers and love.

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“Police exist to uphold white supremacy,” the dolt had posted on Twitter, now X, in October 2021. “Defund then abolish. Reform can’t be an option.”

The year before, the Mensa wannabe had also posted, “Cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done this in 1621,” in a now-deleted tweet. She’s since disavowed both of those statements. “I’ve cooked many great Thanksgiving dinners,” she told CBS News ahead of the primary election, “and I’m not going to cancel Thanksgiving.” Sure. If she had won, what would stop her?

Critics in both Republican and Democratic circles expressed concerns that Hong’s past radical comments and policies would spell trouble for her in the November general election, at least for now, as history has shown us, the Democrats keep moving farther and farther to the extreme left once they get in power.

Two of the biggest socialist-communist in US politics, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Commie-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Commie-NY), kept their distance from Hong after campaigning hard for far-left America-hating, anti-Semite, Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed ahead of his primary win last week in nearby Michigan.

“She is a font of zany liberal, faculty lounge exotica,” wrote ex-Barack Obama adviser David Axelrod of Hong in an X post last week. 

“This tweet is a perfect example of why the consultant class keeps losing elections,” responded comrade Dragon Lady. “They’re totally clueless, and they’re hellbent on keeping working-class people out of politics. I’ve spent more time in kitchens than faculty lounges. Perhaps you’d like to come to Wisconsin and work a Friday night dinner rush with me?” she taunted. [Her famous Chinese-style dish named in honor of Joe Biden, Sum Dum Fak is so good that people crap their pants over it.]

Crowley deftly positioned himself in the moderate lane, telling reporters Monday: “There are a lot of people who are scared. She is a self-proclaimed socialist. There are a lot of people worried about not just this party, but this country moving in that direction,” he added. 

Crowley had reminded Wisconsin Democrats a day earlier: “Our ultimate goal is to make sure we don’t have a MAGA extremist occupying the governor’s office.” 

In an interview with Politico Friday, Evers wouldn’t commit to backing Hong if she won the primary. “I want to have a chance to take a breath, and once that’s in a position, we’ll see,” he said, adding: “But I anticipate that David will win.” 

In other primary results that somehow failed to feature holiday cancellation as a core platform: In South Carolina, Sen. Darline Graham Nordone and Rep. Ralph Norman advanced to a special Aug. 25 runoff to determine who will receive the Republican nomination for Senate following the death last month of Darline’s brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham. 

Minnesota voters will elect their first female governor in November, as Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Republican state House Speaker Lisa DeMuth won their respective primaries. Progressive Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan defeated moderate Rep. Angie Craig to win the Democratic nomination for US Senate and will take on Republican Michele Tafoya, a former Emmy-winning NFL sideline reporter. 

In Connecticut, 78-year-old Democratic Rep. John Larson, who was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1998, lost his primary to former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin, 46.

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Commie election hopeful didn't oppose child grooming: she might be Wisconsin's next governor

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You have to be kidding me. The socialist frontrunner in Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary hired a self-described “sex worker” to run her campaign and voted against a law that bans grooming children.

State Rep. Francesca Hong, who held a 20-point advantage in the polls going into Tuesday’s primary, was one of just six Wisconsin lawmakers to vote against a measure that bars adults from “engaging in a course of conduct, pattern of behavior, or series of acts with the intention to condition, seduce, solicit, lure, or entice a child” to participate in sexual activity or pornography.

The bill overwhelmingly passed the Wisconsin State Assembly 93-6 and cleared the state Senate by voice vote before Democratic Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) signed it into law in March.

Hong has not publicly explained why she voted against the legislation. Others who voted against argued that it was redundant to existing state law, but they're probably okay with kids getting groomed.

The legislation initially came about as a response to the case of Christian Enwright, 31, a teacher from Kenosha who pled guilty to 15 misdemeanor counts of “disorderly conduct” in connection with his interactions with students, including a 14-year-old girl. 

“[Enwright] engaged in classic grooming behavior, preying on the vulnerability of at least one female student, under the guise of being a mentor, to foster and further a predatory relationship with her,” a school district investigator said. 

In addition to inspiring the new anti-grooming law, Enright’s actions sparked a lawsuit by a student’s parents against both him and the school district. Media outlets did not publish the names of either the girl or her parents because she still attended school in the district. 

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Hong entered Tuesday’s primary as the clear polling frontrunner because socialism is the new cool thing with dolts.

The democratic socialist has raised eyebrows during the campaign with a number of her old social media posts in which she called for the cancellation of Thanksgiving and suggested abolishing the Senate. She has also called for defunding the police, a position she’s tried to temper throughout her campaign, as recently as 2021, saying, “Police exist to uphold white supremacy. Defund then abolish. Reform can’t be an option.”

Dolts eat this garbage up.

Hong also made headlines with her support for legalizing prostitution, a point she punctuated by hiring an OnlyFans model to manage her campaign.

Folks, this is the Democrat Party now. A socialist who won’t ban grooming kids and puts a sex worker in charge of her campaign is leading the pack to be governor. 

Wisconsin better wake up, but don't hold your breath.

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Florida awards Zohran Mamdani as their "Economic Developer of the Year" in Times Sq. campaign

"Hey Zohran, thanks for the jobs" --love, Florida

Communism [the left calls it socialism] is apparently a strong motivator to get people to run as fast as they can away from where it's imposed. New York City, run by comrade Mayor Zohran Mamdani, is one case in point. The beneficiary of New York's exodus in large part is Florida.

At the corner of Broadway and West 43rd Street, basically the heart of the Big Appel, a massive new billboard is sending an infuriating message to New York leadership: "Thanks for the jobs!" [H/T Fox News.]

The United States is now facing a choice between free enterprise or more government control under socialism. Florida is having none of that and has launched a Times Square campaign naming  New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani Florida's "Economic Developer of the Year." Let this once again show the [wo]man in the street, how progressive socialist policies with their all encompassing taxing, are driving businesses and families to conservative-run states such as Florida and Texas.

Florida now has a $1,800,000,000,000.35 record-breaking wealth migration. That's even more money than Elon Musk has earned.

"We wanted to thank him [Mamdani] for the jobs, the companies, the people that they're pushing out of New York — and a lot of them are coming to Florida," Chamber CEO Mark Wilson first told Fox News Digital on Monday.

"America is at a crossroads right now. I think everyone that's paying attention knows that our country was built on freedom and free enterprise and people having the liberty to make their dreams come true," Wilson said. "And there's a push in our country right now to take those liberties away and to attack free enterprise. And that's never worked anywhere, and it won't work in America."

"What Mayor Mamdani is doing is dangerous for the country, right? It's bad for New Yorkers. It's bad for New York. It's very harmful for the country," Wilson continued. "We can choose free enterprise, which is what America was built on, or we can choose to destroy that, which is what the social[ist] policies do… And so, what we're hoping happens from this campaign is that we refocus America on free enterprise."

In addition to putting the blame on Mamdani, the Chamber’s campaign highlights its argument that lower tax rates yield higher total state revenues by incentivizing growth, while blue-state tax hikes trigger a tax-based exodus. According to the Chamber, citing IRS migration data, Florida gains approximately $2.4 million in net taxable income every hour, while New York loses approximately $1.1 million per hour. The Chamber also says Florida gains a net 551 residents daily, compared to New York losing 115 residents daily. Now that's an enormous difference.

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According to the Chamber's press release, New York’s state budget is over twice Florida’s, and New York City’s municipal budget alone is more than $8 billion higher than the entire Florida state budget.

"What do people like Mayor Mamdani do? They want to then increase taxes on the people who are left, which just further accelerates people leaving places like New York," Wilson explained, showing that comrades like Mamdani, know nothing about economics and are dangerous to their constituents and the country as a whole.

So just like Barack Obama was the gun industry's best salesman, Mamdani is Florida's best jobs head hunter.

"Florida's lowered taxes over 50 times in the last 15 years. And we have record revenues coming in because people want to be here. And when the economy grows, tax revenues grow. That's how free enterprise works," Wilson said.

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Macho man Jimmy ['The Trucker'] Talarico crows about hiding illegal aliens and calls Texas Christians "Christo-Fascists"

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Fox News got its hands on a video of a 2023 interview showing Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico bragging about how his church illegally sheltered illegal aliens from legal deportation. The church also fought for “LGBTQ rights in the ‘90s,” and allowed an atheist to join the congregation in the 2000s because it doesn't put much stock in Jesus.

In a dazzling display of progressive piety that would leave any ordinary churchgoer scratching their head, Talarico helpfully boiled down his congregation's hyper-progressive illegal stunts by declaring that “Christianity is just another word for causing trouble,” as if leftist anti-American law-breaking were the purest expression of the faith.

Not to be outdone, the truck maven Talarico then casually branded conservative Christians “Christo-facists” for the unforgivable sin of advancing policies like bans on killing the unborn and sex change surgeries for minors, school choice voucher programs, and displaying the Ten Commandments.

"All these ideologies stem from this Christo-fascism movement, which, essentially, like I said, is just using faith to exercise raw political, social and economic power," Talarico told the interviewer. "I think it's dangerous to all of us, but particularly to those who are marginalized and oppressed in our state."

Evidently, cutting off human appendages to try looking like the opposite sex of a child, and murdering babies in the womb, is safe, sane, and the right thing to do because young children can make life-altering decisions and babies are a lot of work and take away from one's time.

Naturally, the Talarico campaign has raced to backpedal from these illuminating remarks, insisting their candidate is merely a moderate Christian who suddenly believes in border security and supports law enforcement. 

A spokes socialist for the Talarico campaign dismissed Republican criticism of the candidate's progressive beliefs as “flat out lies.”

"James is a Christian seminarian who’s dedicated his life to the teachings of Jesus Christ, fighting religious and political corruption when he sees it because there’s nothing Christ-like about powerful people twisting the teachings of Jesus to justify hate, violence, and greed,” the spokes socialist told Fox News. 

“While billionaire-bought politicians like Ken Paxton attack James for his faith, he will continue encouraging Texans across the political spectrum to come together by loving their neighbors as themselves." 

Talarico’s earlier takes on Christianity have kept the fireworks going all campaign long, from claiming the Annunciation of Our Lord justified abortion, to declaring God is non-binary, to insisting that prohibiting sex changes for minors was sinful.Now this progressive past of Talarico’s is set to square off against key Trump-ally Ken Paxton for control of the Texas Senate seat in November’s midterm elections.

For a big, tough, truck-driving Texan, James Talarico is a lightweight. It would be incredibly surprising, and equally as sad, if this clown wins in the election.

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Guess who's the suspect for the murder in Portland ICE facility shooting

Believe it or not, the suspect arrested in connection with the fatal shooting outside of the Portland U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility earlier this week is a Somali immigrant, according to online records.

Mahmoud Said Ali, a 42-year-old Muslim, was taken into custody on Saturday morning and booked into the Multnomah County Jail. The charges are second-degree murder, a felony, and unlawful use of a weapon, according to jail records.Portland Police said in a press release that detectives learned of Ali's presence in the 13100 block of Northeast Glisan Street on Friday evening. 

Investigators requested assistance from the bureau's Special Emergency Reaction Team (SERT) and the crisis negotiation team. Ali was arrested at about 3:30 am on Saturday, police said.Authorities identified the victim as 42-year-old Anwar A. Osman, who sustained multiple gunshot wounds and died at the scene. The pair reportedly knew each other, according to police, but they weren't very good friends at the time of the shooting.

The killing occurred on Tuesday at approximately 4:10 am. PPB said in a press release: "A sergeant assigned to the Portland Police Bureau's Central Precinct was on routine patrol in the South Waterfront when he spotted a vehicle that had crashed into a building in the 4000 block of South Macadam Avenue. 

Simultaneously, community members were calling 911 to report shots fired in the area."

"The sergeant and responding officers approached the vehicle and found the adult male driver unconscious and suffering from gunshot wounds. Officers pulled the individual out of the vehicle and performed lifesaving measures. Unfortunately, the adult male was pronounced deceased at the scene," said PPB.

Authorities said the shooting appears to have occurred at the traffic light at South Bancroft Street and South Macadam Avenue, which is located near the front of the ICE facility at the top of a hill. The victim's vehicle rolled down the hill and crashed into a building. Ali fled the scene, according to police.Ali lists his hometown Mogadishu, Somalia, on his Facebook account. Police said Portland is his primary residence.

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A Tactical Alliance of Convenience: Why Islamists and the Radical Left Align Against the West

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Have you wondered about why Islamists [aka jihadists] and communists/socialists appear to align themselves in the West?

The apparent alignment of Islamists and the radical left in the West is a tactical alliance of convenience, directed against shared enemies, and nothing more. It is not ideological harmony, nor any genuine synthesis of worldviews. 

Islamists, those committed to political Islam, the imposition of sharia, or theocratic rule, are permanently incompatible with communists or socialists. One rests on atheistic materialism and class struggle; the other on divine revelation and the supremacy of the ummah. One sees history as dialectical process; the other as the unfolding of God’s will. Can you guess which is which?

Wherever either has secured power, the other has been purged: Iran after 1979, Soviet Afghanistan, the various Arab socialist experiments. The pattern is consistent and instructive. 

In the West the cooperation is narrower and more limited--campus coalitions, street protests, immigration politics, and anti-Israel activism--yet it's real. Both treat liberal democracy, classical liberalism, free speech on matters of religion and sex, market capitalism, and above all Israel and the United States as the primary obstacles. 

After the 1960s the Western left largely abandoned pure class analysis for an identity-based “oppressor-oppressed” framework. Islamists fit neatly into the “oppressed” category via postcolonial theory, while Zionism or Western policy is cast as the oppressor. The result is joint rallies, BDS campaigns, and campus occupations in which progressive slogans and Islamist symbols appear side by side. 

Hard communists remain fringe; the practical partners are the broader progressive, socialist, and intersectional currents that absorbed Marxist categories and repurposed them. The arrangement is strictly tactical. 

Islamists gain platforms, funding channels, legal cover, and demographic leverage inside open societies.

Western leftist factions gain reliable voting blocs, street muscle, and moral leverage against conservatives. European left parties have courted Muslim organizations for municipal power; American campuses after 7 October 2023 displayed the same selective silence on honor violence, apostasy penalties, and gender segregation that would be intolerable from any other group. 

For the moment both sides regard liberalism itself as the greater threat. Historical precedents confirm the pattern without implying any deeper fusion. Soviet support for certain anti-Western Islamist or nationalist movements during the Cold War was pure realpolitik. 

Anti-colonial rhetoric supplied a shared vocabulary that outlived the USSR. Once power shifted, the alliances dissolved into repression. 

But the sleazy partnership is brittle.

Islamist social conservatism on women, sexuality, blasphemy, and Jews collides with progressive priorities the moment enforcement is attempted. Secular leftists who still notice the data on integration, crime patterns, or polling on sharia, homosexuality, and Israel among many Muslim-majority migrant communities peel away. 

Islamists, for their part, regard communism as kufr and have no long-term interest in proletarian internationalism. Where demographic or institutional power tilts toward one side, the other is discarded. Explanations that reduce the phenomenon solely to “Islamophobia,” “racism,” or pure leftist idealism ignore the repeated, observable pattern of selective solidarity and the explicit statements from both Islamist and radical-left organizers about using each other. 

Equally crude are those that treat every Muslim as an Islamist or every progressive as a communist. It just isn't so.

The alignment exists where interests coincide against the liberal center and the right; it is not a marriage of worldviews. History suggests this alliance will not survive the moment one party no longer needs the other. When demographic change or institutional capture shifts the balance of power, the temporary truce will end as it always has—in mutual repudiation and, where possible, suppression. 

The West will then discover, once again, that the enemies of its enemies were never its friends.

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Trump Takes Aim at Birth Tourism, Moves to Tighten Birthright Citizenship

President Donald Trump is once again reminding everyone that immigration policy is not supposed to be a suggestion box.

On Thursday, Trump signed two executive orders targeting birth tourism and expanding the definition of who does not qualify for birthright citizenship.

The move comes after the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in June in Trump v. Barbara, which ruled that birthright citizenship is a right under the Constitution.

Trump was not exactly thrilled with the ruling.

“We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright. It was close, but a very, very unfortunate decision. So we’re making adjustments because it’s very unfair,” Trump said.

He also argued that the original purpose of birthright citizenship has little to do with the modern cottage industry that has developed around it.

“This was done for a different reason. This was done right after the Civil War. This was for the babies of slaves, and what’s happening now? People are building businesses around it,” he added.

The White House explained that the first executive order identifies, among other categories, certain children of aliens who are not entitled to birthright citizenship, consistent with historical exceptions recognized by the Supreme Court in Barbara.

The second order delegates presidential authority to the secretaries of State and Homeland Security and directs them to shut down the practice of birth tourism.

Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff and a frequent source of nightmares for immigration activists, said the order ending birth tourism falls within the president’s authority under Section 215A of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

“This has been something that people have talked about not only for years but for decades,” Miller said.

Apparently, it was finally time to do something about it.

“The idea that people come here pretending to be a tourist, pretending to be a visitor, saying they want to go to Disneyland, they want to go visit a monument or go to a national park, but the real reason they’re here is to have a child, to make that child an automatic citizen, leave our country, and then have a U.S. citizen child,” he continued.

“It gives them access under this broken system to welfare benefits, ultimately to the voting booth, and all the other rights and privileges that belong solely to Americans. So that practice of birth tourism is, as of the signing of this order, hereby banned,” he added. “And what that means is that no one in the world is any more allowed to obtain a visa for this fraudulent purpose.”

Miller called the action one of Trump’s most important immigration moves.

“I would put this in the top three in terms of importance because it ends what has been one of the gravest and most egregious abuses of the American system, and it keeps American citizenship sacred,” he said.

The other executive order takes aim at broader categories of children of aliens who would not qualify for birthright citizenship.

“That includes, for example, alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations, and large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments,” Miller said.

“And so, with taking this action, it ensures that large numbers of people who wrongly would be getting birthright citizenship will no longer be eligible for those benefits,” he added.

Trump also signed a proclamation establishing a minimum import price program for polysilicon and polysilicon derivative imports, an effort aimed at protecting American producers. The administration said the move also imposes a 15 percent tariff on derivative products to encourage these industries to move their operations to the United States.

“This is a series of trade and tariff actions under Section 232, intended to ensure that domestic polysilicon manufacturing is properly supported and protected from overseas dumping and offshore threats,” White House staff secretary Will Scharf said.

Polysilicon may not exactly be the stuff of campaign rallies, but it is critical to producing the silicon wafers used in computer chips, including those powering the artificial intelligence boom.

“So the president’s policies have brought 50 percent of production into America, but we need the foundational products made here. Otherwise, you know, we’re making the products here, but we need the supply chain here,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said.

In other words, making the fancy stuff in America while importing the ingredients from overseas is apparently not quite the industrial renaissance anyone had in mind.

Trump’s latest actions put both immigration and domestic manufacturing back where his administration apparently believes they belong: at the center of the America First agenda.

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El-Sayed's deep-down disgust with Michigan's Mackinac Island: asks voters to send him to Washington anyway

In a development that surprised absolutely no one familiar with the modern Democratic Party, Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee and jihadi, Abdul El-Sayed, once went full progressive tourist and trashed one of the state’s most beloved vacation spots while complaining about being forced to campaign there.

“I hate Mackinac so much,” he said in a 2020 documentary that followed his failed run for governor. “Every time I’ve ever come here I’ve hated it. Why am I here?” Better question: why is this anti-Semite even running for office?

The clip, resurfaced by The Midwesterner, captured the future Senate hopeful at peak authenticity.  El-Sayed then helpfully clarified that if he somehow won the governorship, Mackinac Island would become his summer home, his way of walking back what he really feels.

The car-free island has hosted the Michigan governor’s official summer residence since 1945, a place where normal people enjoy horse-drawn carriages, bicycles, and walking instead of whatever coastal elite utopia El-Sayed apparently prefers. My guess is that their utopia resembles Egypt, where his parents are from.

His campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment on why a man who openly despises one of Michigan’s most historical and wholesome landmarks still expects voters to trust him with their state’s future. Of course, the mainstream media didn't press them for an answer beyond the bs they fed the press.

Last year, Democratic Governor the elite Gretchen Whitmer tried to paper over the progressive distaste for the place by pitching Mackinac Island as the perfect film location for HBO’s “The White Lotus.” 

“If HBO is looking for the perfect location for season 4…Mackinac Island is ready to check you in,” she wrote over footage of the island’s scenery. Whitmer continues to visit regularly for events like the Mackinac Policy Conference, where Michigan’s political and business establishment gathers each year to pretend everything is fine. [She may have even gone there during the COVID-19 lockdowns because, you know, she's elite and doesn't have to answer to anyone in the state.]

This is not the first time a Democratic candidate has publicly loathed the very place they claim to represent. 

During a special election for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, Democratic nominee Aftyn Behn shared her deep affection for Nashville: “I hate the city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of the things that make Nashville apparently an ‘it’ city to the rest of the country. But I hate it.”

One can only imagine what she thinks about the rest of the country.

El-Sayed now faces Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers in the general election. After El-Sayed narrowly edged out Rep. Haley Stevens, Rogers released a video aimed at Democratic voters alarmed by the rise of the far-Left in Michigan. “You have a home with us,” he told Democrats of all ages. “Over the next 90 days I am going to work hard to earn your trust, to earn your support, and earn your vote. We have a state to save, Michigan. Let’s get to work.”

At least one party still seems to like the state it wants to represent.

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