The Marxist-Islamist Alliance Feeds On DSA Naïveté

When Abdul El-Sayed defeated “moderate” Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) to claim the Democratic nomination for the Senate in Michigan, far left members of the party and their allies in the corporate news media responded with unabashed elation. It is by no means clear, however, that these people understand the significance of El-Sayed’s narrow victory. This primary was just the latest manifestation of the collaboration between neo-Marxist progressives and radical Islamists. This affiliation is neither incidental nor harmless. These extremist groups share two common objectives — the destruction of Israel and the corruption of Western democracy.

Like most subversive movements the Red-Green Alliance, as it is sometimes called, began as a small and rather ludicrous group of four far-left primary candidates who successfully challenged establishment Democrats in deep blue House districts. We now know them as the Squad — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). They were inevitably the beneficiaries of fawning media coverage from the New York Times, CNN, the communist magazine Jacobin, the Islamist publication Al-Jazeera, ad infinitum. The corporate “news” media in general heralded the Squad as a progressive alternative to the alleged evils of “Trumpism” and Ocasio-Cortez  soon became their mascot.

And her utterances reinforced the notion that the Squad was little more than a joke. While discussing climate change initiatives she brayed, “We need to invent technology that has never even been invented yet.” On unemployment she offered this nonsense: “I think the numbers that you just talked about is part of the problem, right? Because we look at these figures and we say, ‘Oh, unemployment is low, everything is fine, right?’ Well, unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs.” Speaking about the electoral outlook for Democrats she opined, “If we work our butts off to make sure that we take back all three chambers of Congress — rather, all three chambers of government: the presidency, the Senate, and the House in 2020.” The GOP took them seriously only to the extent that they revealed how unserious the Democrats had become.