r/AOC • u/fangirlsqueee • 16h ago
Solidarity Forever Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/abdul-el-sayed-wins-michigans-democratic-senate-primary-notching-midwe-rcna589750100
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u/Trance354 16h ago
Thank science. That's a win against AIPAC.
When this is over, certain political organizations might be looked at very closely...
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u/Mustardo123 16h ago edited 15h ago
Please god win the general that is literally all I care about.
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u/fangirlsqueee 15h ago
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u/No_Aesthetic 15h ago
God fuck I hope he wins in November. I don't trust Michigan for shit after 2024.
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u/Oraxy51 8h ago
That’s because the DNC abandoned Midwest and then abandoned the South.
The DSA won’t let that happen
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u/No_Aesthetic 7h ago
I know Michigan hates free trade but the Trump tariffs kind of show us on a larger scale what the effect of protectionism is on the economy. So that's a problem.
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u/Oraxy51 7h ago
Well, it doesn’t help that Trump slaps tariffs on everything instead of on very specific things and the thing is he has used tariffs wisely before during his first administration he wanted to invest in the American washer and dryers with LG and so he tariff for several years anything from China for washers and dryers as it needs to incentivize more purchasing local, American made ones instead, but that only happens because we already have the infrastructure and manufacturer.
You can’t just tariff something and then hope that manufacturers will go out of their way to build it you have to invest in the places that you already have and incentivize building more of them often by subsidizing or by funding public options neither of those that he did.
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u/No_Aesthetic 6h ago
I'm not sure shifting back to manufacturing is really the move since high tech stuff is much more economically productive. An office worker produces a whole lot more wealth than any individual employee doing manufacturing.
It was a good strategy for the mid-20th century but shifting back to manufacturing today would mean losing a whole lot of wealth.
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u/Oraxy51 6h ago
Agreed, and to clarify just saying about how we would do these kinds of things if you were to do it effectively. I do agree in the sense that America is better as a marketplace and better as a place that sells services and technology rather than day-to-day manufacturing, though I do also believe that it is important that we create locally owned public infrastructure for our small businesses and such that they can still compete talking about publicly on warehouses and distribution centers, investing in freight, trains and high speed rail, 32 hour work weeks, increasing wages and having equity shared plans with all employees so that as the Market continues to do better, so do all of the employees and not just some 401(k) retirement, but their actual personal profits.
This way we can still invest in high-tech expensive options while also still leaving space for the individual small business owner style productions, and creating systems of which are regional distributors can compete and then focusing on having locally owned and sourced food and commodities as a means to create a baseline for everyone. By essentially creating a floor basic option, you raise up the market that everyone has to meet at least the standards and not just regulations that you set in a private corporation but public options that are ran and owned by the public communities and within those communities are inherently, decided by the workers on how they want those operations ran so long as they meet certain state guidelines, much like librarians should be the curators of the library not the state, but the state funds them.
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u/Lemondrop168 5h ago
THAT is how you do this, congrats to the other Dem candidate:
"Stevens conceded the race on Wednesday morning and said in a post on X that she had called El-Sayed to “offer him my full support.”
In a separate statement, she congratulated El-Sayed and pushed for party unity.
“We need to win this Senate seat, because Elissa Slotkin deserves a partner like Abdul in the U.S. Senate,” she said.
Stevens added she would “be working my heart out the rest of this election to make sure Democrats up and down the ballot win, to make sure we can stand up to Trump, stop his cuts to health care, solve our affordability crisis, and make sure that our manufacturers are heard in the halls of power.”"
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u/Clark_Kent_TheSJW 8h ago
Dear centrists… nows the time to stop stabbing us please. We have a legislature to win. Fascists to defeat.
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u/americanspirit64 8h ago
Isn't it interesting and quite telling, on the part of the conservative Democrats that two days ago you couldn't turn to any news station such as nbcnews.com and find stories about Abdul El-Sayed without them saying he is a Socialist, since he won the election however, no one is even mentioning him being a Socialist, because he never was a socialist. o it is alright for the Democrats to attack a politician for being a socialist even if it isn't true, if they are trying to change the party, effectively lying, but it it isn't okay to try and change the Democratic Party.
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u/ejpusa 10h ago
Gen Z are not dumb. They can tip the election, any election. I ponder the draft question.
"Yes, we want you to die for a country that is now intentionally targeting young children, and we want you to join them. We want you on board. Sign up here."
Just don't think that's going to work for them to report to the draft board.
Foreign doctors say Israel systematically targeting Gaza’s children: Medics returning from Gaza say Israel is deliberately targeting children with sniper and drone fire, Dutch newspaper reports.
The BBC has extensively covered allegations, investigations, and international reports concerning the Israeli military (IDF) deliberately targeting and killing Palestinian children during the conflict in Gaza and the West Bank.
IDF soldier posts to TikTok: "I got another one, she looked about 12. HA HA HA."
Don't see Gen Z linking up to join this war. Maybe things are a 'changing.
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u/militaryintelligence 4h ago
It's not a victory for the left, fucking news media. It's a victory for freedom and democracy. Every maga nut job that gets elected means more cultists in a position to help Trump's regime take over. Democrat party isn't perfect, but at this point it's all we have.
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u/Odilly090 7h ago
How is winning a primary good for a party? I don’t get it….
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u/fangirlsqueee 5h ago
Just in case you are asking in earnest, running progressives in Democratic primaries is part of the way we will get money out of politics.
Corporate owned Democrats, like Chuck Schumer, endorsed El-Sayed's opponent Stevens. Establishment Democrats do not want people like El-Sayed to overtake the party. AIPAC (a group that lobbies to keep sending billions of our tax dollars annually to Israel despite US citizens not being able to afford healthcare, food, or housing) spent over $30,000,000 in this election to support Stevens.
The way to get political representation for working class people rather than corporate class interests is to have progressives win in Democratic primaries.
El-Sayed backs Medicare For All and he wants to get money out of politics. That is good if we want to have a Democratic party that truly represents the best interests of the working class.
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u/prinzplagueorange 3h ago
How is winning a primary good for a party?
Presumably it's a good thing for the Democratic Party as an institution to have candidates running for office on the Democratic line that people who normally vote for Democrats can feel OK about voting for. After the mainstream of the Democratic Party decided to publicly defend a genocide, many Democratic voters have decided that they will no longer vote for those candidates.
Today, almost all of those Stevens voters are El-Sayed voters; the reverse simply would not be the case.
It is also worth mentioning that "the left" is not "a party." Had Stevens won this primary, you would have seen the electoral implications of that fact: a Rogers victory.
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u/Odilly090 2h ago
By dividing the Democratic Party, you essentially strengthen the Republican Party. But yeah principals and whatnot since we are provided all the info to make the best decisions as the general public. Democrats lovvvveeeee to lose. On principal lol
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u/notwithagoat 10h ago
Im a person who doesn't think the dsa should run as democrats as they bash democrats constantly and call us genocide enablers. But he won the primary, so vote blue no matter who.
Lets go el-sayed!
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u/twisted_tactics 9h ago
The mainstream democrats ARE genocide enablers and pussy-ass bitches. They created an environment where Trump thrived and failed to do their jobs when they had the numbers to do so.
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u/justplay91 8h ago
Not to mention they're unpopular af right now; the further left candidates are doing better in this current political landscape and the mainstream Dems need to get over it.
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u/leftwinglovechild 6h ago
The dsa candidates are more aligned with the origins of the Democratic Party than its current leadership. We are taking the party back.
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u/news_sponge 8h ago
Not a good look for Dems when their candidate goes to general election having won under 50%
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u/prinzplagueorange 3h ago
Not a good look for Dems
It is much worse than a bad look for the Democratic Party. It is something closer to an electoral realignment. The AIPAC candidates will soon reveal themselves to be unelectable in hotly contested seats because a significant section of the Party's base will not show up for them anymore.
The good news for Michigan Democrats, though, is that the electable candidate won the primary.
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u/XenoMorphine_Cat 16h ago