Election 2026 was supposed to be the year the Democratic
Party struck back at Trump 2.0. They expected to win with easy, glee-filled pickup
opportunities across the country and in Congress. Yet no matter how frustrated the
voters may be with Republicans, Democratic Party operatives pushed extreme or
failed candidates to their party’s detriment. They have turned off working
people with their racist and socialist rhetoric, and voters are increasingly
likely to hold their noses and support the tough reality of Republicans rather
than tyrannical Democrats who have lost touch with reality entirely.
Republicans made this mistake four years ago. They thought
they had the upper hand so strongly after two years of Joe Biden’s failed,
miserable, and extremely unpopular leadership that unvetted MAGA types of all
sorts--with little government experience or credibility or proper connection to
their constituents—ran for office. Republicans' chances went from a red tsunami
to a red trickle in Election 2022.
Democrats are having this problem now. They never learn! The
Democratic Socialists of America, the growing fringe of the DNC, still burned
over what happened to Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020, are on a revenge tour
against the Establishment Democrats. They want the radical socialist agenda that
party leaders have promised but never delivered. They’re building on major
victories in New York City with the mayor's race as well as removing three
democratic incumbents in the Congressional races. Chuck Schumer probably won't
be in Congress much longer once AOC decides to challenge him for the US Senate
seat in 2028.
With the rise of the DSA, legacy Democratic voters are
starting to have second thoughts about their party.
There is no better proof of a disturbing realignment on the
horizon than the radical reversals revealing themselves in the Wolverine State.
Since 2016, this state has witnessed Republican pushback like never before. Who
would have predicted that a Republican presidential candidate would win Michigan?
Not since George Herbert Walker Bush have Republicans carried this or other
major Rust Belt states besides Ohio.
Trump has won Michigan twice, and this year a Republican
will likely win the US Senate as well, in part because of a growing wave of
defecting Michigan Democrats disgusted with their US Senate standard-bearer. Republican
Mike Rogers, the former congressman and chairman House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence, lost his previous bid for US Senate by
less than a percentage point in 2024. Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin squeaked
by for the win, but has done nothing but put her foot in her mouth while
pretending to be some kind of common-sense moderate. Her latest fascist scheme:
go after conservatives if Democrats take the majority in Congress, which has exposed
her embrace of the extreme fringes of her party.
She’s not helping her potential colleague Abdul El-Sayed. He
was a controversial candidate during the primary, and he has not moved toward
the center since. El-Sayed’s
family has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, and he has openly fraternized
with abusive
anti-American
communist podcaster Hasan Piker, who has declared that "America deserved
9-11." An ardent opponent of Israel, alienating
Jewish voters, El-Sayed has advertised himself as a medical doctor, when he’s
not a licensed physician at all. Rather than recovering from mistakes and
moderating his message and platform, this Democratic nominee is doubling down
on socialist extremism.
The Michigan Democratic debacle has become a welcome turn of
events for the Republican Party and the conservative movement. For years,
Republican candidates had to push away the charges of extremism, radicalism,
and fascism from a hostile media and unscrupulous progressive operatives. Over
and over, conservatives had to overcome Democratic attacks linking Republicans
to QAnon or anti-Semitic podcasters. Now the tables have turned, and now Democrats
are struggling to shake off the extreme fringes of their Left flank, or face
further losses in elections to come.
Speaker emerita and retiring Congresswoman Nancy
Pelosi has bashed Abdul. US Senator John Fetterman has
joined the pile-on, distancing himself from this radical who puts Palestine
ahead of General Motors. Democrats realize that Islamic fascist radicalism is
hurting their brand in otherwise safe areas, further dividing the Democratic grassroots
between pro-Zionist Jewish Democrats and their allies versus pro-Palestinian
activists and their violent activist allies.
The Democratic Party cannot afford this breach right now,
especially having lost the last presidential election by large numbers, while
enduring unprecedented Republican and conservative victories from the
Congressional Republican majorities. Hoping to stem the worst outcomes, Michigan
Democrats in the legislature and throughout the state have pulled their support
for El-Sayed. The
longtime Democratic Saginaw County sheriff switched to independent and
announced his support for Mike Rogers. Former
Democratic Congressman Hansen Clarke has also announced his support for the
Republican.
The biggest proof of Michigan realignment from Democrat to
Republican can when Michigan Congresswoman Haley Stevens (and El-Sayed’s
primary challenger) endorsed Mike Rogers. This is a calculated move, surely, as
she admitted in a November 1st, 2026, press conference/announcement that
she is still a proud Democrat. The Michigan Democratic Party apparatus is not showing
any favor or restraint. They
have officially announced that she is no longer a Democrat; they have taken
away her access to Democratic voter rolls; and they have stripped her name and
picture from the Michigan Democratic Party website.
Black Democratic voters in Michigan are fed up with a party
that doesn't support their interests. They
have endorsed Rogers. Jewish Democrats feel increasingly isolated and
alienated by a political apparatus which panders to Palestinian terrorism and
activist tyranny. They
are voting for Rogers. These two ethnic voting blocs have been reliable
Democratic voters for generations. And a Republican former congressman is about
to capitalize on their disillusionment with the party of their youth and win a
US Senate seat.
This was unthinkable even after Trump's victories, since Michigan
Republicans have stumbled at the state level in the state elections. But the
Wolverine State going Republican at the federal level could highlight an
unprecedented political realignment, which will have implications for years to
come.
Democrats have much to fear in this election cycle, and it
was supposed to be a walk for them!
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