Lefty Michigan House candidate wished death on centrist Democrats in old social media post: ‘Hurry up and die’

A Democratic candidate wrote a song telling his own party's centrists to hurry up and die, and the excuse being floated is that he was frustrated about Build Back Better stalling out. That's not context, that's an admission. This wasn't some anonymous troll account venting into the void. It was a man who wanted to be a member of Congress, expressing that policy disagreements with fellow Democrats warranted wishing for their deaths.

Imagine the reaction if a Republican candidate had written that about a moderate in his own party over a spending bill. It would be the lead story on every network for a week, and rightly so. Instead this surfaces days before an election in a battleground district and gets treated as an awkward footnote from CNN, something to be explained away rather than reckoned with.

What makes this notable isn't just the ugliness of the sentiment, it's who it was aimed at. Joe Manchin wasn't some villain from a different party. He was a Democrat who represented a state Biden lost badly, doing exactly what elected officials are supposed to do: reflecting his constituents instead of toeing a line dictated from Washington. That instinct, apparently, is what earns you a death wish from the activist wing of the party now running candidates in swing districts nationwide.

Voters in Michigan's 7th deserve to know who they're being asked to send to Congress. Not the sanitized campaign bio, the actual record of what the man has said when he thought nobody serious was watching.