First, they won in New York. Then they took Maine, Colorado, and Michigan. And now, the next battleground for the energized socialist movement infiltrating the Democratic Party is Wisconsin. Francesca Hong, a chef, state assemblywoman, and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), is running for governor, and the specter of a socialist in charge of a major swing state like Wisconsin should serve as a wake-up call for Republicans hoping to succeed outgoing Democrat Tony Evers. Hong has predictably made her bed with some of the left’s most prominent progressive figures, campaigning alongside Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and socialist streamer Hasan Piker among others. She is hoping to ride the progressive wave generated by Abdul El-Sayed, who just triumphed in the Michigan Democratic primary, sending party leaders scrambling to pretend that openly anti-establishment, antisemitic socialists such as El-Sayed are welcome in their party.
A perfect indication of just how scared the Democratic leadership is of having El-Sayed attached to their brand is the funding that poured into the establishment candidate from out of state. Democratic-aligned interest groups contributed a whopping $60 million to the primary campaign of Rep. Haley Stevens, a progressive establishment figure, almost ten times as much as El-Sayed received from left-wing political action committees. But the voters simply didn’t see enough in the eccentric congresswoman to send her up against Republican Mike Rogers in November. And so they nominated a man with open animosity towards Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and who supports government-run healthcare, defunding ICE, ending foreign aid to Israel, and most of the other pillars of the far-left agenda.
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