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Hasan Piker — a self-styled left-wing influencer with a massive online audience — ignited fresh outrage this week by telling Axios that he believes America “pound for pound” conducts more terrorism in the world than al‑Qaeda, a jaw‑dropping claim that should alarm every patriot. That kind of moral inversion isn’t a harmless provocation; it’s the language of people who excuse or rationalize the worst abuses while blaming the United States for defending freedom.
Senator Eric Schmitt was right to join Harris Faulkner and call out Democrats who refuse to disown these dangerous allies, putting pressure where it matters — on candidates who cozy up to radical commentators. Conservatives shouldn’t cede the moral high ground; if Democrats won’t separate themselves from figures who make excuses for terrorists, Republicans must expose that failure loudly and often.
Abdul El‑Sayed’s campaign is scrambling because he repeatedly appeared with Piker during the primary and has been forced into a defensive posture ever since national attention landed on those appearances. Democrats who pretend such ties are irrelevant are either naïve or complicit, and Michigan voters deserve to know whether their party’s rising stars count controversial streamers as legitimate surrogates.
Republicans across the map have made El‑Sayed a top target precisely because this is about character and judgment, not just policy; the GOP has rightly used Piker’s extreme rhetoric to highlight a broader pattern on the left. Meanwhile, the national Democratic machine is pouring money into the race to paper over the problem instead of solving it, which tells you everything about their priorities.
Let’s be blunt: when a campaign builds bridges to a commentator who downplays or relativizes terrorism and sparks credible concerns among Jewish voters, that’s not a mere “guilt by association” talking point — it’s a reflection of who you surround yourself with. Democrats keep insisting that appearances don’t matter, but voters know better; character is revealed by the company a candidate keeps.
El‑Sayed has tried to walk back the worst of the fallout, and even fact‑checkers note he has said he does not think 9/11 was justified, yet he refuses to fully wrest himself from the political fallout of his allies’ words. That evasiveness is precisely the kind of political cowardice Americans reject — we want leaders who stand up for the nation, not apologize for it while sitting beside those who disparage it.
Patriots in Michigan and across America should demand accountability: voters must ask pointed questions about judgment, alliances, and where a candidate’s loyalties truly lie. If Democrats won’t hold their own to basic standards of decency and national fidelity, then Republicans like Senator Schmitt will keep calling it out until the voters do the right thing at the ballot box.
