By There’s no bottom for the DSA socialists. Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign is attacking Rep. Haley Stevens for voting to honor Charlie Kirk after his assassination, apparently deciding that condemning political murder is now a disqualifying offense in a Democratic primary.
The attack offers a revealing look at the modern progressive left’s increasingly rigid and, quite frankly, violent standards. It is no longer enough for Democrats to oppose conservatives on policy. They must also refuse to show sympathy when those conservatives become victims of violence — or risk being accused of betrayal by their own party. It’s hard not to think he wants more assassinations, or at least is ambivalent to them.
not Haley Stevens carrying the flame pic.twitter.com/7snOmCx3AN
— Abdul HQ (@AbdulElSayedHQ) July 9, 2026
On July 9, El-Sayed’s official campaign account posted an image of Stevens with the words: “HALEY STEVENS VOTED TO PRAISE AND HONOR THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF CHARLIE KIRK.”
The campaign added: “not Haley Stevens carrying the flame.”
The post referred to Stevens’ vote for H.Res. 719, a congressional resolution adopted after Kirk was assassinated on September 10, 2025, while speaking at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University.
The resolution condemned Kirk’s murder, expressed sympathy for his family, and honored his life and political work. It passed the House with substantial bipartisan support, including nearly 100 Democratic votes.
It left some wondering what exactly El-Sayed thought was objectionable:
So what part precisely do you find offensive? pic.twitter.com/0FWRCJ4iq7
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) July 10, 2026
Stevens was hardly alone. Michigan Democratic Reps. Debbie Dingell, Hillary Scholten, and Kristen McDonald Rivet also supported the measure.
But the El-Sayed campaign singled out Stevens because she is standing between him and the Democratic nomination for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat.
The attack reflects a broader moral sickness on the activist left. For years, progressives have insisted that heated rhetoric and political polarization can lead to violence. Yet when a conservative is actually murdered, some of the same activists suddenly demand ideological purity from anyone who expresses sympathy.
Liberals may condemn the killing a conservative only after reciting a list of the victim’s political sins. They may comfort the family, but only after making clear that the murdered person was still a bad man. They may reject assassination, but they must never appear too compassionate toward the assassinated.
That’s why Graham Platner was supported by the party after it came out that he assaulted a conservative woman. Only when a second woman, a liberal, also said she had been assaulted by the Maine Senate candidate did liberals feel the need to denounce him.
The conservative victim, Lyndsey Fifield, explained:
I actually understand why Democrat leaders didn't take our stories seriously when the Times reported them in June but are taking them seriously now.
It was by design.
The line most shared from the piece was the claim that the Times “could not corroborate” my story despite…
— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) July 7, 2026
Human decency must be filtered through partisan loyalty on the Democratic side of aisle, and that’s the standard being applied to Stevens
She did not vote to adopt Kirk’s political platform. She did not renounce the Democratic Party. She voted for a bipartisan resolution following the assassination of a major political figure.
There was once a name for that kind of response: normal.
Ordinary liberals used to understand that political disagreement did not erase a person’s humanity. They could oppose a conservative’s ideas while still believing he should not be gunned down in front of an audience.
They could recognize that assassination is not merely another partisan event to be exploited, but an attack on civil society itself.
The episode also exposes the choice facing Michigan Democratic voters.
Stevens represents a more conventional liberal politics in which opponents remain human beings and political violence can be condemned without qualification. El-Sayed’s campaign is offering something harsher and more radical, one that has no problem with deploying violence against conservatives in the name of their promises for leftwing utopia.
The progressive left does not merely want Democrats to defeat conservatives.
It wants Democrats to despise them — even after they have been murdered. That may be even doubly so for El-Sayed, who said his voter base was mourning the death of the tyrannical Ayatollah Ali Khamenei eaelier
