A wave of Republican attacks against two Muslim Democrats has ended with one of the most prominent right-wing commentators in the country endorsing Abdul El-Sayed for Senate.
Tucker Carlson wrote in his newsletter on Friday that El-Sayed’s opponent, Mike Rogers, was unfit for office and defended him over his past criticism of the war on terror.
The Michigan Democrat emerged from this past week after a wave of attacks were hurled at him and Zohran Mamdani, the first elected Muslim mayor of New York, around the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Both men were the subject of intense focus from media organizations on the right and even some mainstream outlets as the two faced differing but related accusations of anti-American sentiment impossible to separate from their Muslim faith.
That’s disappointing, El-Sayed seemed promising.
I get the sense that Tucker Carlson holds a significant influence over your opinions of other people.
He’s on the Russian payroll. It could mean Russia wants El-Sayed in office.
If you RTFA you might draw the conclusion that it’s due to Carlson being rabidly against the Iran war, in a case of stopped clock syndrome.
You know who else is Rabidly against the Iran war? Iran, Russia, North Korea and China…
Wow, I guess that means bombing Iran is good! 🤨 If you support Trump’s war you’re allowed to just say so.
And America
Russia’s heavily benefiting from the Iran war lol. Why would they want it to end? 1) It drives up energy prices and they still sell some oil and gas (even if their own gas stations run dry from time to time, making money to support the war is a priority). 2) It depletes the US’s stockpiles, which could otherwise be used to help Ukraine if the dems were to take both houses in the midterms. 3) It’s causing financial pain to much of the west.
Iran is an ally of Russia and the infrastructure Irans been using to help Russia is being attacked. Cherry picking pros doesn’t mean there aren’t any cons
No. It’s discrediting propaganda. This was the exact response they wanted you to have. They are actively trying to sabotage and co-opt in geoups to discredit their opposition. Not a single fucking conservative was ever going to vote for El-Sayed, but now they’ve just indoctrinated who knows how many “progressives” (reactionaries) to disavow a credible candidate due to an entirely different and antithetical political entity talking about them.
You see it, right? It’s not subtle.
It doesn’t mean AES recognizes his endorsement
No, but it means something is up if Carlson supports him. It could mean Russia wants him in office.
It’s just as likely reverse psychology from Carlson as anything, e.g. “People who might vote for this guy hate me so I’ll endorse him to hurt his chances.”
Its possible, but a bank shot like that is not what I think is happening. There is no real value in the bank shot for Tucker. And I don’t think this hurts El Sayed.
What this does is further isolate mainstream media from their influence on politics. Its mainstream media who are opposing El Sayed, not DSA/ the left. As long as DSA/leftists types don’t take the self sabotage bait, there is no real political hegemony that can stand against El Sayed at this point.
That’s also possible. I don’t live in Michigan, but if I did I’d still vote for El-Sayed, I just don’t like Carlson supporting him because I don’t trust Carlson as far as I could sling a Freightliner.
Maybe it’s propaganda to get you onto this exact line of thought and reasoning.
Its called “Republicans shit the bed even harder” the second go round. Literally everything in America is worse than its ever been and its a direct consequence of the policies of Trumpism. There’s no messaging your way out of that, just like there was no way for Biden to message their way out of things getting continuously worse under their leadership as well.
Trump and Republicanism are radioactive cancer right now is the signal this is sending.
This is the same braindead tribalist reasoning MAGAts use to determine who to give their support. “Well this guy seems good, but the person I hate likes him, so that means I gotta hate him too.”
Stop it. You’re better than this. Think critically, and stop letting your opinion be swayed by dimwits like Tucker Carlson.
I’d still vote for him if I lived in Michigan. I just worry what Carlson’s support might mean.
I imagine it just means he’s hungry for attention, and he figured endorsing a progressive Democrat might gin up some controversy for him.
Sorry if I came at you kinda hot there; my nerves are running pretty high as we approach election day.
If this is an earnest statement then the whole situation says nothing about El-Sayed and it says a whole lot about Tucker Carlson’s desperation.
If it’s a ploy, which it definitely is, the fact that you are interpreting it the way you are seems like that would be entirely the point of this angle of propaganda. There is no way they didn’t know that your specific interpretation was going to be the exact reaction they would be fomenting with this. They know who Carlson is, we all do. This is all pretty obvious staging. If so, congrats, it worked perfectly on you. No one is immune to propaganda.