Politics Michigan’s Common-Sense Rebuke of Middle East Warmongers Abdul El-Sayed is now poised to greatly erode the taboo around Israel in Washington. Photo by Salwan Georges/Getty Images I’m glad the Democrats won big. Since February 28th, I’ve hoped Trump would receive a humiliating rebuke; his launch of a needless war far outweighs his other failings and accomplishments.
I am especially pleased Abdul El-Sayed won by a convincing margin in Michigan. Not that I harbor any hope that he will become, by my lights, an appealing senator; he espouses leftist views on issues, from transing kids to socialized medicine, that I find wrongheaded or repellant. (I also believe mass Muslim immigration has been an unmitigated disaster for Western Europe, and would support a dramatic curtailment of Muslim immigration here—positions I’m sure El Sayed doesn’t share.) But the newly elected senator has the right enemies on even more important issues, and prevailed against them against heavy odds.