This pearl of wisdom applies to matters great and small. It is applicable to the annoyances and inconveniences of day-to-day living. It is also applicable to decisions made many miles away but with profound consequences for everyone.
Which brings me to Michigan's decision to elect Abdul El-Sayed to the U.S. Senate.
The vote was fair and square. El-Sayed bested Mike Rogers by 7 points. I suppose I can take comfort in the fact that fellow Democrat Jocelyn Benson won the Michigan gubernatorial race against Republican Congressman John James by nearly 11 points. Of course, it doesn't change the fact El-Sayed still prevailed.
I suppose I can bear in mind the significant Muslim population which has long existed in Michigan owing to the appeal of the auto industry. In which case, El-Sayed would not have been as likely to be elected to the Senate from places which elected Democrats on Tuesday night such as Texas, South Carolina, Kansas, Iowa and right next door in Ohio.
But as with Barack Obama, I see El-Sayed as a man who has White House ambitions. I can see the likes of James Talarico, Annie Andrews, Adam Hamilton, Josh Turek and Sherrod Brown seeking to curry favor with him. I can also see Democrats from those states nominating him in a primary or caucus.
Yes, El-Sayed is youthful, energetic, telegenic and well-spoken. The problem is that he has used these qualities to promote hatred against Jews:
Israel is an affordability issue. Every time you want to put glasses on kids’ faces or give people healthcare or fix a school, somebody pops up and is like, Well, how are you going to pay for that? I don’t know. Maybe we should keep our money here instead of sending it there to drop bombs on people’s schools or their hospitals. That’s our money.
El-Sayed's argument is not much different than the people who complain about sending foreign aid to Ethiopia for famine relief or to Haiti for disaster relief and make the argument the money should be spent here. Of course, the difference is that El-Sayed only complains about foreign aid to a single country and leading Democrats have been legitimizing this anti-Semitic rubbish as part of our normal political discourse.
Throw in the fact he cannot bring himself to condemn violence against Jews who live in his own state without equivocation and only issued a non-apology apology after winning the Democratic Party nomination. Even today, while appearing on The View he claimed he was "offering context."
Nope. When someone commits or attempts to commit an act of grievous harm against a group of people there is no context. There is only condemnation of that act. Period.
Not only did El-Sayed offer "context" he actually claimed Jews couldn't make the case that "hurt people hurt people" on the ground that "Israel did a genocide."
Unfortunately, this is music to the ears of the most devoted of Democratic Party activists. Perhaps El-Sayed isn't so overly ambitious as to seek a White House nomination. But El-Sayed has standing and perhaps his endorsement (along with that of NYC Mayor Mamdani) would be the determining factor who is nominated.
El-Sayed's presidential window would most likely be in 2032 or 2036. The former would mark a full term in the Senate. Even if Americans elect a Democrat to the White House in 2028, I would not be surprised if he were to launch a challenge in 2032 if the DSA folks consider the Democratic President to be insufficiently socialist or more likely insufficiently anti-Israel, anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic. El-Sayed would be waiting in the wings.
Simply put, I have a feeling a Democrats will select El-Sayed as their presidential nominee. With that, comes the possibility that the American voters will elect an Islamist with a leftist veneer as President. In which case, El-Sayed will dominate our lives in the way Donald Trump has for the past decade and not for the better.
As appalled as I am at Michigan voters for electing El-Sayed, the fact remains that they did. El-Sayed has the wind at his back with the Democratic Party and mainstream media fanning the sails while sinking any criticism to the bottom of Lake Michigan.
So, yes, I am preparing for the worst.
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