WASHINGTON, D.C. Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz celebrated defeating
Democratic Socialists of America-backed challenger
Oliver Larkin by doing something rarely seen in modern Democratic politics: winning an election and then immediately sending his condolences to
Hasan Piker.
Moskowitz offered his “condolences” to the far-left, anti-America, anti-Zionist streamer who had enthusiastically backed Moskowitz’s execrable opponent, apparently demonstrating that there are still Democrats who would prefer socialism remain a theoretical concept that works beautifully in countries that somehow still have capitalism to pay for it.
Larkin lost to the more moderate Moskowitz in
Florida’s 25th Congressional District, proving that at least some Democratic voters remain reluctant to hand the controls of the American economy to people whose primary qualification is having memorized the word “oppressor.”
The heavily redrawn swing district is expected to be one of roughly two dozen House races that could determine whether Republicans retain their razor-thin majority in the midterm elections.
Naturally, Moskowitz knew exactly whom to thank for his victory.
"My condolences to @hasanthehun," Moskowitz wrote on
X with the kind of graduate-level snark normally reserved for academic journals and congressional group chats.
Piker, apparently unable to witness a congressional election without immediately locating Israel somewhere inside it, responded:
"its pretty wild that his first thought was a prominent critic of israel, before even thanking his constituents lmao. really worried about his genocidal emotional support apartheid state."
Piker refused to capitalize Israel, apparently saving his capital letters for more important subjects, such as Islam.
Moskowitz eventually got around to thanking his constituents the following day, along with his wife, children and late father.
"I want to thank the voters of District 25 for continuing to have the faith in me to deliver results for Florida," he wrote. "I want to thank my wife and kids who I have spent a lot of time away from. My dad died of cancer 4 years ago. He would have enjoyed all of this. I miss him. Onward!"
So, to recap: Moskowitz won an election, thanked his voters and family, remembered his deceased father, and then apparently committed the unforgivable political sin of noticing Hasan Piker.
Moskowitz later argued that Democrats should stop treating Piker like the embarrassing relative who arrives at Thanksgiving, insults the host, declares the family business exploitative, and then gets quietly ushered into the garage whenever respectable guests show up.
"Democrats shouldn’t play hide the Piker now," Moskowitz said after his victory, according to
Politico Playbook. "For all those people who thought it was a great idea to campaign with him, as
Jay-Z once said, ‘Bring ’em out, bring ’em out.’ They shouldn’t be hiding him now."
Piker was not exactly thrilled by the invitation to step into the electoral spotlight.
"I’m genuinely concerned for his mental well-being."
In reality, Piker is not concerned about anyone's mental well-being. He's only concerned with hating on the American people.
"I think he should stop posting on the internet and focus on defeating the Republican in his newly redistricted congressional seat," Piker added.
Apparently, according to Piker, Moskowitz's mental health became endangered somewhere between winning an election and mentioning the guy who campaigned against him.
Moskowitz then called
DSA members "anti-American at their core."
This presumably did wonders for the atmosphere at Piker's online headquarters, where the American flag presumably remains classified as hostile propaganda.
Piker has become something of a political flashpoint for Democrats, who are now wrestling with a fascinating strategic dilemma: Should they appeal to ordinary Americans, or should they continue taking electoral advice from a millionaire internet celebrity whose political worldview sometimes sounds like it was assembled from the comment section of a college freshman's TikTok video?
Piker has campaigned with several far-left candidates, including Francesca Hong, who lost her gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin, and Michigan Senate candidate
Abdul El-Sayed.
Sen.
Bernie Sanders has argued that Democrats should include people like Piker because the streamer reaches a large audience. Democratic strategist
James Carville, meanwhile, has expressed considerably less enthusiasm about turning the Democratic Party into a group project with Piker.
This leaves Democrats facing the sort of strategic question that political consultants usually charge six figures to avoid answering: Is Hasan Piker an electoral asset, or is he what happens when a campaign accidentally gives the microphone to the internet?
Commentator Kaivan Shroff noted that Piker probably would have been celebrating loudly had Larkin won.
"One of the asymmetries in Democratic politics right now is that when a DSA candidate wins, it is immediately treated as evidence of some enormous ideological realignment in the party," Shroff said. "When a more moderate Democrat wins, there is usually much less hype and almost no corresponding narrative.
"We saw that with David Crowley beating Francesca Hong in Wisconsin, and now Moskowitz has beaten a DSA-backed challenger in Florida," Shroff continued. "Imagine the coverage if the result had gone the other way, and imagine the victory lap Hasan Piker and the online left would be taking right now.
"I actually think there is value in Moskowitz picking this fight," he added. "Piker backed his opponent and made himself part of the race. By going after him publicly, Moskowitz is forcing people to tell the other side of this story, and, frankly, here we are talking about it because he did."
Indeed, Piker's involvement in Democratic politics has produced an electoral strategy that appears to have been designed by someone who believes America is simultaneously an oppressive empire and the most important audience on Earth.
After El-Sayed won his Michigan primary, Piker rejected calls for the candidate to repair relationships with skeptical Democrats ahead of the general election against Republican Mike Rogers.
"Like everyone being like, Abdul has a f--- ton of work to do mending bridges. Here's the f---ing take nuke for you, OK? You are all unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of s---, OK?" Piker said.
Which is certainly one approach to coalition building.
Nothing says “let's expand the Democratic coalition” quite like immediately informing large portions of the existing coalition that they are human garbage.
And now Piker has another Democratic primary loss to contemplate, along with the horrifying possibility that a Democratic congressman might actually want voters to know who his political allies are.
Moskowitz has apparently decided that if Hasan Piker wants to help Democrats win elections, Democrats should at least have the courtesy to introduce him to the voters.
"Everyone, this is Hasan. He thinks America is terrible, Israel is worse, capitalism is evil, and somehow we're supposed to believe he's helping us win Florida."
The condolences, it seems, were entirely appropriate.
In the strange new world of Democratic politics, apparently the most controversial thing a congressman can do is win an election, thank his constituents, remember his father, and then point out who was rooting for the other guy.
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