For years, there was a comfortable fiction that Barack Obama represented some kind of moderate wing of the Democrat Party. The man who campaigned on “hope and change” was supposed to be the adult in the room — the steady hand guiding his party away from the ideological cliff. But every election cycle, that story gets harder to sell. The real question was never whether Obama would embrace the hard left. It was when he’d stop bothering to hide it.
We now have a definitive answer, and it arrives courtesy of a Michigan Senate race that has become a laboratory for just how far the Democratic establishment will lurch. A former president had a choice between nudging his party toward the center and throwing his full weight behind one of the most extreme Senate candidates in modern memory. He didn’t hesitate.
From The Post Millennial:
Democrat Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed discussed his race and campaign in an “encouraging” phone call with former President Barack Obama, according to a report from The Detroit News. El-Sayed, who won by about 20,000 votes in a primary against moderate Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens, spoke to Obama on Friday, which the outlet described as “encouraging.”
The idea behind the call was to find ways to unite Democrats in the state ahead of the general election come November. El-Sayed claims to represent the working class but that demographic went to his opponent while he secured wealthy, educated voters.
Notice who Obama didn’t call. He didn’t reach out to Haley Stevens, the moderate who actually carried working-class and Black voters in the primary. He called Abdul El-Sayed — a man who wants to abolish ICE and implement Medicare for all. El-Sayed gushed that Obama was the first time he “ever saw myself reflected in politics at all.” Interesting admission. If El-Sayed sees himself in Obama, and Obama is now personally quarterbacking his general election strategy, maybe we should believe both of them about where they stand.
This wasn’t some obligatory party-unity courtesy call. Obama is actively coaching a candidate whose platform reads like a progressive fever dream.
A candidate even Democrats should worry about
El-Sayed’s extremism stretches well beyond policy papers. In leaked audio from earlier this year, the candidate admitted he didn’t want to discuss the death of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — killed by US and Israeli forces — because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who were sad” about it. His proposed strategy for dodging questions about a dead terrorist regime leader? “Go straight to pedophilia, frankly,” he said, planning to deflect by smearing President Trump. Real statesman energy there.
Then there’s his cozy relationship with far-left streamer Hasan Piker, who infamously declared that America “deserved 9/11” and told his audience that socialists should “kill those motherf*ckers” when discussing landlords. When pressed on Piker’s 9/11 commentary, El-Sayed waved it away as a “dumb statement” and kept right on campaigning with the guy.
These are the associations Barack Obama is willing to cosign. Worth sitting with that for a moment.
The populist con job
Perhaps the most galling element of El-Sayed’s candidacy is his relentless insistence on branding himself a working-class champion. The primary results demolish that narrative entirely. Stevens carried Black communities, poor communities, and blue-collar precincts across Michigan. El-Sayed swept the wealthy, educated counties — wine-track progressives who treat socialism as a dinner-party talking point rather than something they’d ever actually live under.
Rich leftists dressing up in hard-hat rhetoric while pushing policies that would gut the people they claim to defend. Obama perfected this maneuver. Now he’s passing the playbook along.
The mask finally slips
Obama’s involvement here isn’t some aberration. It’s a confirmation. Freed from the constraints of his own campaigns, the former president is revealing the full scope of his ideological commitments. He’s not tempering El-Sayed. He’s not steering him toward sensible positions. He’s building infrastructure for a candidate who champions open borders, government-run healthcare, and who won’t unequivocally condemn anti-American rhetoric from his own allies.
Michigan’s working-class voters already rejected El-Sayed’s brand of fringe-left politics in the primary. Come November, the entire state gets its say. Obama can dress this up as “unity” all he wants. Americans who believe in secure borders, national sovereignty, and limited government recognize socialist overreach when they see it — no matter whose name is attached.
Key Takeaways
- Obama personally strategized with Michigan’s most extreme Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed.
- El-Sayed wants to abolish ICE and refused to disavow anti-American rhetoric from allies.
- Working-class voters rejected El-Sayed in the primary despite his populist posturing.
- Obama’s endorsement confirms his full embrace of socialist-left ideology.
Sources: The Post Millennial
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