The Call To ‘Purge’ Police And Media That Abdul El-Sayed Put His

Abdul El-Sayed wants to represent Michigan in the U.S. Senate. Before that, he put his name on a letter cheering on an Egyptian president with a Muslim Brotherhood pedigree and urging him to purge the media and the police. That is not a metaphor. That is the actual request.

The Washington Free Beacon surfaced the document, and it deserves a slower read than it has gotten. El-Sayed was praising Abdel Fattah el-Sisi? Actually, the report says the letter cheered Egypt’s president who was a senior Muslim Brotherhood figure. That would be Mohamed Morsi. Either way, El-Sayed found a strongman worth endorsing and then told him to crack down on journalists and cops. For a Democrat who campaigns on civil liberties and criminal justice reform, that takes a special kind of audacity.

Now watch what happens next. Or, more accurately, watch what doesn’t happen. If a Republican had signed a letter endorsing a foreign leader’s purge of media and police, cable news would run it on loop. Democratic leaders would call it disqualifying. Instead, El-Sayed is treated as a mainstream progressive with a bright future. The silence is the story. It tells you everything about whose abuses the left is willing to excuse.

Michigan voters can decide for themselves. But this is not a footnote from someone’s college days. It is a signed statement about how El-Sayed thinks power should work. Maybe someone in the Democratic primary should ask him about it. That would be a nice change of pace.