Dem Rep: Party Now Belongs to Socialists and Antisemites
10th August 2026
And has at least for the last twenty years.
A longtime Democrat congressman says that Abdul El-Sayed’s Democrat primary victory for Michigan proves that the Left has “normalized” hate “in plain sight,” adding that this is “scary” for all Americans.
In an op-ed for the Free Press, Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., wrote that his party is “being hijacked by socialists” and is “overrun by antisemitism.”
Throughout the Michigan primary campaign, El-Sayed refused to condemn the death of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei because it could “upset” some of his voters. He also justified a Hezbollah-inspired terrorist attack against Temple Israel Synagogue and Pre-School in Michigan.
El-Sayed also appeared alongside leftist influencer Hasan Piker, who, Gottheimer wrote, previously “praised Hamas, referred to Orthodox Jews as ‘inbred,’ and blamed America for 9/11.”