Ex-DSA member rips Abdul El-Sayed and warns far-left adopting politics of foreign terror org

A former member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) who lives in Michigan issued a dire warning against extremism in American politics, and ripped far-left, progressive Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed as dishonest and "sanctimonious."

"So, I think that it's up to everyone to not sit on their hands, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, we all need to be out there," Jake Altman told Fox News Digital. "We all need to be supporting candidates who love this country, who want to deliver for Michiganders. We should not be leaning into this sectarian politics. My fear is we've seen the left wing of the Democratic Party import the politics of Hezbollah into the United States, and now we're living with the sectarian aftermath of that."

Altman, who formerly worked for several labor unions, said the DSA began adding fanatical far-left factions, including Marxists and Leninists, around 2014 and 2015. 

He claimed that at the time, similar far-left actors were taking control of labor unions, intending to use well-meaning workers as pawns in a much larger political battle to push the Democratic Party further left. That was about the time he left the movement, which he said has become "very susceptible to extremist takeover."

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"That's not America," he said. "We want... a broad, tolerant America. We want pluralism here. We don't want to be at each other's throats. I'm just — we have to stand up and say 'no' to this."

Tensions between the DSA and Democratic Party have reached a boiling point — nowhere more evident than in Michigan — where El-Sayed, who has palled around with socialist streamer Hasan Piker on the campaign trail, is facing difficulty rallying the party's moderates in support of his candidacy.

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"So, I've met Abdul several times," said Altman. "I worked very closely with his dad when his dad was union president of the AAUP local I worked for. So I have, you know, I think I have a pretty good read on the guy."

Mohamed El-Sayed, Abdul's father, is an engineering professor at Eastern Michigan University, where he served as president of the school's AAUP chapter and led a faculty strike in 2022.

"When I was at the Democratic Party convention, the recent Democratic Party nominating convention, [Abdul El-Sayed] recognized me," Altman continued, clarifying that he was referring to April's contentious Michigan Democratic Party endorsement convention. "He was working a line that I was standing in, and he recognized me, and he asked me, 'why all the hate?' 'cause I had been critical of the campaign up to that point."

Altman said Abdul El-Sayed told him that his campaign "doesn't do that," apparently claiming that his campaign wasn't engaged in political mudslinging.

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