January 1, Socialist Michigan Candidate Calls American Politics a ‘Disease’ — Shocking Comments Revealed

Wyatt’s Take

• Socialist-backed Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed went on a bizarre anti-American rant, calling our entire political system a ‘disease’ — this from someone who claims to love the country that gave him everything.
• He toured the state with Squad member AOC and Bernie Sanders, attacking President Trump, ICE, corporations, and even Democratic leadership while pushing the most radical agenda Michigan has ever seen.
• El-Sayed wants to abolish ICE entirely, claims medical debt can magically be erased for pennies, and proudly boasts about being ‘dangerous’ to party leaders — this is the extreme left’s vision for our country.

A socialist candidate running for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat delivered a stunning attack on America’s political system this weekend, calling it a “disease” just moments after claiming to love the country.

Abdul El-Sayed made the inflammatory remarks during the final stop of “The People v. The Powerful” tour at DeVos Performance Hall in Grand Rapids. The event featured some of the Democratic Party’s most radical voices, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders.

The trio spent the evening bashing President Donald Trump, corporate America, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement while pushing a far-left agenda that would fundamentally transform the nation.

El-Sayed, an Egyptian American physician and former public health official, began his remarks by acknowledging the opportunities America provided him. He mentioned receiving a public university education and medical training funded through the National Institutes of Health.

“No, don’t get it twisted. I love America. I know exactly what America gave to me. I know what my life would have been, but for America,” El-Sayed said.

“I know what America can do, and at the same time, it’s impossible not to reflect on the worst moments of those 250 years as well.”

But then the candidate pivoted to attacking the very system that enabled his success. He argued that President Trump wasn’t the real problem — America itself was.

“Donald Trump is not, himself, the disease of our politics. He’s just the worst symptom of the disease of our politics,” El-Sayed declared.

“The disease? It’s the system that allows corporations and billionaires and special interests like AIPAC to buy and sell politicians to rig the system against us.”

Ocasio-Cortez echoed similar talking points moments earlier, telling the crowd they deserved “a politics that treats the disease and not the symptoms.”

“You deserve a politics that treats the disease and not the symptoms.”

The Senate hopeful then turned his attention to healthcare, making wildly unrealistic claims about medical debt. He insisted that the nation’s roughly $225 billion in medical debt could somehow be eliminated for just $2.25 billion.

“Medical debt shouldn’t exist,” he said, claiming it could be purchased “for a penny on the dollar.”

But El-Sayed saved his most radical proposal for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He called for completely abolishing the federal agency that protects our borders and enforces immigration law.

“ICE has nothing to do with immigration. ICE has nothing to do with the southern border. ICE is about normalizing paramilitary forces on our streets. ICE is about weaponizing the idea of immigration against the Constitution itself. ICE cannot be reformed. ICE cannot be retrained. ICE has to be abolished.”

In a bizarre moment of self-awareness, El-Sayed described himself as “dangerous” to various political and corporate interests — including his own party’s leadership.

“If you’re Blue Cross Blue Shield, I’m dangerous,” he said.

“If you’re Chuck Schumer, trading politicians like trading cards, I’m dangerous.”

Wyatt Matters

This is what the radical left thinks of our country. They’ll take everything America offers — education, opportunity, prosperity — then turn around and call the whole system diseased. Working families in Michigan deserve better than a candidate who teams up with AOC and Bernie Sanders to push an agenda that would destroy border security, bankrupt our healthcare system, and fundamentally dismantle the American way of life. The choice couldn’t be clearer.