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It Was Democrat Pathologies, Still Increasing, that Put Trump in Office Twice

The Michigan Senate candidate made the comments alongside antisemitic streamer Hasan Piker, when asked about the synagogue attack last month … When a reporter from The Free Press pressed El-Sayed on his claim, asking whether a similar argument would have allowed sympathy for a Jewish person attacking a mosque after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks in Israel, [El Sayad said] the circumstances were not the same. 

Gabby Deutch, Jewish Insider, 4/8/26

Barack Obama will campaign with Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed on October 24. That is a mistake for the former president and his legacy.

People claim the Democratic Party isn’t embracing socialism. Well, here’s who is backing El-Sayed: Kamala Harris, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Zohran Mamdani, Gavin Newsom, and Chuck Schumer.

That’s pretty much the whole party. So, don’t tell me they aren’t endorsing socialism and anti-Semitism, because El-Sayed does not like Jews.

The El-Sayed Situation, Bill O’Reilly 10/8/26

Unearthed Comments Reveal El-Sayed Once Savaged Obama. Now He’s Campaigning With Him … El-Sayed penned a 2012 essay for the Huffington Post in which he said Obama failed to deliver on “the hope and change” behind his 2008 campaign.

El-Sayed wrote that Obama “perpetuated war, violated our civil liberties … [T]he list of his failures goes on.”

El-Sayed also targeted the Affordable Care Act, or so-called Obamacare, calling it a “watered-down reform that kowtows to the interests of health care lobbies.”

                                                            HeadlineUSA, 10/8/26

There were a lot of promises made in selling Obamacare—and it seems like just about all of them have been broken. … The Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, did not lower overall health care costs or family insurance premiums in the way President Barack Obama originally promised, …  Promised $2,500 Premium Reduction: President Obama famously promised during the 2008 campaign that the law would reduce the average family’s health insurance premium by $2,500. Instead, individual market and family premiums rose significantly in the years following implementation, with average individual and family plan costs climbing substantially through the 2010s.

Google AI answer to the question whether Obamacare lowered health care costs as Obama has promised.

Barack Obama’s policies and job approval ratings were deeply polarized and mixed during his two terms in office (2009–2017), according to Gallup. … Public Approval and Polarization Polarized Ratings: Obama was a highly polarizing president.  … His overall average job approval rating across both terms was around 47% to 48%, ranking among the lower averages for modern two-term U.S. presidents.

Google AI’s current answer to the question whether Obama’s policies during his two terms were popular.

Obama comes to us from a background farther to the Left than any presidential nominee since George McGovern, or perhaps ever. This makes him an extremely unlikely leader to bridge the divides of party, ideology, or, for that matter, race. 

                                                                                    American Enterprise Institute, 8/10/08

Bill O’Reilly’s remark that Michigan Senate candidate El Sayad “does not like Jews” may, putting it mildly, be the understatement of the year.  El Sayad has appeared in Democrat Primaries with the noxious Anti-Semite Hasan Piker who defended Hamas terrorists who killed thousands of Israelis on Oct. 7th.  Further, when asked to comment on the 2026 Temple Israel Synagogue attack, El Sayad made the transparently false statement, with which Ghandi and most decent people would not agree, that “Hurt people hurt people.”  In addition to the death of the terrorist, 64 law enforcement officers were injured in that attack.  To reply with the sophomoric absurdity that people who are hurt go on to hurt other people is callous in the extreme.  In fact, El Sayad was attempting to give a thinly disguised justification for the attack on the synagogue.  El Sayad appears to forget that people who are not in his circles within which he moves have these things called consciences and souls.  Unfortunately, and true to his hypocritical type, El Sayad did not extend the same potential justification to Jewish people who attacked a mosque in Israel after Oct. 7, 2023.    Needless to say, leftists, including Jewish Americans like comrade Tarlov on The Five on Foxnews, who may be a tad confused by her far left education and ideology at the Fabian Socialist-founded London School of Economics, have done their best to spin in order to normalize these leftist Jew haters.

Jessica Tarlov spins for El-Sayed: Says he just “seemed like a bro who went to the University of Michigan” in disaster interview with Jesse Watters. “I think it was all very effective.” Mopping up this mess is a hard job. She’s not good at it.

Jessica Tarlov offers curious defense of El Sayed, Bizpacreview, 8/26/26

Yes, of course, El Sayad was just a “bro” who attended the University of Michigan, much like Ted Bundy was just a bro who attended the University of Seattle. In fact, Tarlov’s spin for the unwholesome likes of El Sayad, her transparent attempt to normalize him as just another “bro”, is completely without any cognitive relevance to the discussion, the usual drivel churned out en mass to give the impression that one is saying something significant.   This is because, for leftists like Obama and Tarlov, the Party trumps everything. Principles and decency are readily abandoned in order to win more seats, more power and money, in the next election.  Who really cares about the Jews anymore? The Democrats can very easily replace them with Muslims.  Whereas, according to Google AI, there are about 15 to 17 million Jews on Earth, there are about 2 billion Muslims currently on the planet.  The Democrats have appeared to notice that the Muslims are a far better demographic to court than the Jews.  

It must be admitted, however, that El Sayad, despite his touching new Bromance with Barak the Great, does get some things right.  Democrats (leftists and any genuine “liberals” that are left) have raged for years that the American citizens elected Trump.   What they have failed to understand is that in 2016 they, the Left, the Democrats, with the failure of the Obama’s two terms, and later, with the nightmare of Biden’s and Kamala’s unprecedented levels of dishonesty and incompetence, and the transparent lawfare against Trump, all of which “the folks”, the voters, have noticed, put Trump into office again in 2024 in a landslide.  The fact that our so-called “news” media has spent the last 16 years grovelling to Obama’s alleged glory, the myth of His brilliance, has only made it worse for them.

The moral, for rational Democrats, if we can still find one, would seem to be this:  If Democrats don’t want someone like Trump to win the presidency in the future, then maybe they should try promoting reasonable fiscal and social policies and being straight with the American people for a change.  Stop trying, anti-democratically, to rig elections, like rigging the 2020 Democrat nomination for the sleep-walking Biden and then rigging it again for Kamala after pathetic Biden’s public collapse in the presidential debate.  How about trying this thing called “democracy”?  That might well take us back to the reasonable middle, but the Democrats appear to be constitutionally incapable of doing so.  Instead they are doubling down with even more bizarre far left and anti-Semitic candidates, biological men in women’s sports and the like.   The Left, the Democrats, with essential support from their “news media” shills, brought Trump on themselves.  Driven by rage, they have learned nothing and seem determined to continue in the same vein, even more extremely, in the foreseeable future.  This, likely, will lead to similar failures

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Richard McDonough

Richard Michael McDonough, American philosophy educator. Achievements include production of original interpretation of Wittgenstein’s logical-metaphysical system, original application Kantian Copernican Revolution to philosophy of language; significant interdisciplinary work logic, linguistics, psychology & philosophy. Member Australasian Debating Federation (honorary life, adjudicator since 1991), Phi Kappa Phi.

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