No one can say that Democrats took ’s surprise defection on Sunday morning in stride. Even with the political winds at Democrats’ backs, the party processed Stevens’s last-minute campaign trail appearance with, and endorsement of, over as though it were a betrayal of Shakespearean proportions.
The representative’s decision to “dangerously betray” El-Sayed represented a “despicable” and “selfish choice,” the Democratic Party’s leading lights boomed. “Capitulating to fascism, islamophobia, and racism” must be punished. A growing number of Democrats want Stevens ousted from the party’s congressional caucus. Others, including the chairman of the state party, contend that she is already persona non grata. With nigh Stalinist alacrity, Michigan Democrats swiftly blocked Stevens’s access to state voter bases and purged her likeness from its website.
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