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Wajahat Ali, Abdul El-Sayed, and the 'Islamophobia' Deflection
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Moving beyond New York, Bongino flags a Michigan U.S. Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, as another product of the same DSA model as Chevalier and Mamdani. The clip he plays shows El-Sayed and commentator Wajahat Ali framing journalistic scrutiny of El-Sayed's positions — including his relationship with Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who said the October 7th rapes would not change his views — as casual Islamophobia rooted in anti-Arab animus. Bongino is withering: this same audience, he notes, would call itself MeToo, yet shows zero concern for the rapes on October 7th. The real goal of the 'Islamophobia' accusation, he argues, is to get you to participate in your own political and literal decapitation by silencing any challenge to their agenda. He connects this to his history of covering AOC from her first election, citing audience members who once told him to stop focusing on her because she'd go away — and using the current Mamdani sweep as proof they were wrong.
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Congressman Dan Goldman — a radical leftist who led the charge to weaponize Congress against Trump — lost his primary by 20-30 points AND was publicly shamed by a Brooklyn coffee shop for being too pro-Israel. Bongino's cannibalism theory: the left always eventually devours its own.
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