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Hello, it's Miranda. I'm back with a new mini episode of Podforce one. This feature is a little more topical and relevant to my job as a columnist for the New York Post. Today the topic is the menacing hard left takeover of the Democrat Party, with its latest iteration being the victory of Abdul El Sayed in the Michigan Senate primary. Abdul El Sayed is the latest Islamo socialist terrorist sympathizer star of the Democrat Party after squeaking to a win in the Michigan Senate primary Tuesday. Although he underperformed his poll numbers and the predictions of his media boosters, the lockdown loving health bureaucrat has accelerated the radical left's conquest of the Democrat Party from within. If El Sayed can pull off a victory in November in the Midwest in the swingiest of swing states, what will stop a Marxist heading for the White House? This menacing hard left takeover is disastrous for Democrats and frightening for America. But it is also a potential golden opportunity for the GOP if they don't screw it up. Which is nowhere near certain. El Sayed has slyly distanced himself from his early roots in the Democratic Socialists of America faction of the party and declares himself a scientist, not a socialist. But nobody is fooled, least of all the dsa. Like his comrades, he has a vast trove of deleted social media posts expressing his true hard left beliefs, including defunding the police and its modern day version of abolishing ICE and prison abolition as he tries to shapeshift into a harmless progressive who is palatable to the average fair minded American fed up with politics as usual. The level of deception skills involved in this metamorphosis has pundits praising him as a, quote, political athlete and likening him to Bill Clinton. But his extremism is not hard to detect, no matter how flowery the language, disguising it. In his first speech on Wednesday morning after claiming victory, he issued a veiled threat to his Republican opponent Mike Rogers. Quote, by the time we're done, you are not going to have safe quarter in Michigan from people holding you accountable. End quote Last year, after a terrorist attack on a synagogue and preschool in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield by a Lebanese born Hezbollah sympathizer, El Sayed Said quote, hurt people do hurt people and the circumstances happening 6,000 miles away can affect the lives that we live here. End quote. When he revs up his base, he gives them the blood and guts they seem to crave. When they go low, we don't go high, we take them to the mud and choke them out. He may be more careful with his language these days, but you can tell a man by the company he keeps. El Sayed enjoys a bromance with self appointed DSA mascot and dog torturing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who once said America deserved the 911 terrorist attacks and recently dressed up unironically as Mao Zedong who who he calls quote, one of the great leaders of the world. Piker also has flirted with assassination fantasies, according to a video clip from last year during the rounds of social media in which he is seen on stage with Taylor Lorenz, the former New York Times journalist who once wrote that she felt quote, joy at the murder of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, allegedly by the quote, handsome, morally good Luigi Mangione. In the unverified video, Piker compliments her on her article about Mangione quote, and great video when you said someone has to do it, end quote. The audience laughs at this allusion to assassination and Pica says, see when I say that everyone knows exactly what it means, which shows there's a lot of anger, a lot of resentment and and untapped revolutionary potential. And it's a great opportunity for organising, end quote. Any normal candidate for a normal party would want nothing to do with such repellent views. But like Zoran Mamdani, El Sayed has campaigned with Piker and posted workout videos with him. He was so cocky on election eve that he publicly celebrated with Piker at a pool party. He also boasted that he will beat Rogers by five points even in Michigan. Surely that kind of hubris won't go down well at a general election. Piker was also jubilantly counting his chickens before they were hatched at El Sayed's Alcohol Free Watch party Tuesday night. This is just the beginning, he crowed. Quote, it's not just Michigan, it's not just Wisconsin. We will hopefully continue this movement all across the United States of America, end quote. When Rogers talks about the Democrat quote, crazy train, he will have to find room up front for Francesca Hong, the Dem's Wisconsin gubernatorial favorite who faces her primary next week. Like Piker and Mamdani and every other DSA stooge, she is now trying to distance herself from the radical beliefs that catapulted her to political prominence. Among her pearls of wisdom, she has said she wants to abolish the police and Thanksgiving, that tipping is quote, racist and that white people are so terrible she can't stand watching them eat. But she unfortunately has quote, proximity to whiteness due to the fact her son is half white. She also once issued a barely veiled death threat to Donald Trump. About effing time we 86 Trump, she said. The Luigi wing of the party has found its voice. Democrats, however, seem incapable of controlling the beast. Within a few hours after El Sayed declared victory on Wednesday, Democrat senators boycotted a Senate judiciary hearing on the malign influence of the Muslim Brotherhood network in America, claiming it to be an exercise in quote, Islamophobia. No wonder they are running a million miles since El Sayed's father in law who helped fund his campaign has links to the Muslim Brotherhood as the former president of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations and founding member of the Islamic Society of North America, which were both named as unindicted co conspirators in the Holy Land foundation terrorism finance trial. Chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood have been declared terrorist organizations in the US following the lead of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and El Sayed's parents homeland of Egypt. El Sayed and his wife met at the University of Michigan through the Muslim Students association which has been described as a quote, Muslim Brotherhood front. It will be up to Mike Rogers to convince Michigan voters that El Sayed is unsuitable to be their Senator. To say the least. Rogers is a strong candidate with genuine Michigander working class roots as a one time auto assembly line worker who went on to serve as a U.S. army lieutenant and then an FBI special agent in Chicago investigating organized crime. His track record through seven terms representing Michigan in Congress is positive and as the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, he was one of the strongest critics warning us about the economic and national security threats posed by China, including its hollowing out of the middle class in the former industrial heartland of Michigan. But the polls are tight and Rogers has his work cut out for him against a younger silver tongued foe who is fuelled by a movement giddy about its newfound power. He is also tied to Donald Trump, whose poll numbers are sagging as an unpopular war drags on and for whom the cost of living remains a sore point. The President telling Fox News Tuesday night that he deserves a quote a on the economy was not the right message for a sullen electorate. A little humility would go a long way. Thanks for listening. I'll be back with another mini episode on Monday. Hope you can tune in and enjoy the rest of your week.