The revolution within the Democrat Party left-wing Hamas sympathizer Hasan Piker has been promising is no longer theoretical. Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan. The Democratic Socialists of America party has three new seats in New York. Donavan McKinney defeated a sitting Democrat in Detroit. And now Piker is making clear what comes next: no reconciliation, no mending bridges, no accommodation with the Democratic establishment he just humiliated.
“We don’t need those Democrats anymore.”
That line — delivered from a Mao Zedong suit at the College Democrats of America summer convention weeks ago — has now been followed by action. El-Sayed’s primary victory is Piker’s proof of concept, and he is not interested in using it as leverage for compromise. He is interested in using it as a template for conquest.
Flush with El-Sayed’s victory, Piker is in no mood for reconciliation. He has framed establishment Democrats who supported Haley Stevens — a congresswoman who is herself significantly to the left of the American mainstream — as collaborators with fascism. Anyone who funded ICE, supported Israel’s right to exist, or declined to endorse the DSA’s full platform is, in Piker’s telling, an enemy to be purged. “No more to Democrats who compromise, who conciliate, and who betray us,” he declared.
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This is not rhetoric. It is a governing strategy for a movement that has now demonstrated it can win primaries, unseat incumbents, and override the DCCC’s multi-million dollar intervention.
The establishment Democrats who enabled this deserve every bit of what’s coming to them. Debbie Dingell pledged to endorse “the entire Democratic ticket” — which means endorsing El-Sayed, who called to defund the police, said Israel doesn’t have a right to exist, and built his campaign around a man who publicly praised Mao Zedong. James Carville threatened to leave the party. He won’t. John Fetterman calls them communists. Nobody in Democratic leadership follows his lead. The pattern is consistent: alarm without action, warnings without consequences, capitulation without end.
Piker denied being a kingmaker, saying he is “fortunate enough to be a part of a much broader movement.” The humility is tactical. The movement is real. And it is driven, as polling confirms, primarily by young, white, highly educated voters — not the broad working-class coalition Piker’s Maoist aesthetic implies. The gap between the DSA’s aesthetics and its actual electoral coalition is worth noting, because it suggests the ceiling for this movement in general elections is considerably lower than its primary results indicate.
Republicans should understand both parts of that equation. The DSA is winning Democratic primaries. It is not winning general elections in competitive districts — yet. Michigan’s Senate race will test whether El-Sayed’s primary coalition translates to November.
Piker says no reconciliation. The establishment has been too weak to force any. That dynamic doesn’t change between now and Election Day.
Republicans should make sure every Michigan voter understands who they’re really being asked to elect: A guy who said our country “deserved 9/11.”
Meantime, maybe Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries – both New Yorkers – should start looking for a different career. I have a gut feeling the DSA mob is coming for them next.
