I don’t live in Michigan, but I donate $10-15 a month to the competitive Democrats running for Senate. I usually hate those fundraising emails and prefer to donate on my own.
But I got one from El-Sayed after this bullshit and sent him $50. Fuck Stevens. Apparently helping Israel bomb children is more important than keeping Donald Trump from destroying our democracy. And she has the gall to say after her endorsement, “I’m still a proud Democrat.” Go fuck yourself.
I get it was a bitter primary. I get she has strong feelings about certain foreign policy issues.
But holy shit, she will be unwelcomed anywhere in Democratic politics forever with this BS. If El-Sayed wins, maybe people will forget in a few years. But if he narrowly loses, she will be a pariah forever. Has she deluded herself into thinking everyone will still talk to her and this will be just a minor point of disagreement they just avoid in their chats?
And it will surprise nobody that she’ll go independent and make friends with all the right wing fascists just like John Fetterman. It’s all about her and the attention she’s going to get from it.
Nice work! My only competitive election this year is in the House (Rob Bresnahan is going down). But thanks for voting for sanity!
People like her are everywhere unfortunately. They’re drawn to the attention, the power, the influence. It’s so clear this wasn’t a principled position for her given three months ago…
For her, it’s all personal. She apparently thinks she has the authority to make demands of El-Sayed because she barely lost to him in the primary. If she wants to not go out and campaign with him, fine. But this is pretty clearly a “I told him to do something, he didn’t do it, so I’m going to spit in his face” type situation.
Maybe she truly doesn’t realize how bad she fucked up, but her whole career in politics is done, all because the actual nominee didn’t acquiesce to the loser’s demands and she decided to make a big show of it and cheer for the opposing team she previously decried as extreme.
Democrats see her as a traitor, Republicans see her as useful for 2 days and then they’ll discard her. She’s just done.