MORNING GLORY: Democrat El-Sayed reminds us just one senator can do great damage to our military

It is not often that I constitute critically of a Republican United States senator. But that happened successful February 2023, erstwhile Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville placed a clasp connected subject promotions to protestation a Department of Defense argumentation that covered question expenses for work members seeking reproductive healthcare crossed authorities lines. Tuberville's clasp yet delayed the promotions of much than 400 elder subject officers, galore of whom were colonels oregon Navy captains awaiting promotion to wide oregon emblem rank, for astir 10 months.

The "Tuberville Blockade" upended the lives and careers of hundreds of Army, Air Force and Marine Corps colonels and Navy captains by earnestly disrupting cautiously planned vocation paths and assignments. It besides disrupted the cautiously constructed vocation paths of the generals and admirals who were sidelined by the ill-considered embargo.

Career subject officers ought ne'er again to beryllium held hostage for governmental goals. Sen. Tuberville yet relented aft months of mounting unit from senators successful some parties. He lifted his broad "hold" aft agelong meetings with his Senate colleagues, who emphasized to him that helium was damaging the careers of radical who had provided exemplary work implicit decades. 

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Sen. Tuberville is astir surely going to beryllium the adjacent politician of Alabama, and hopefully helium volition beryllium a amended politician for having learned from his mistake. But the precedent helium acceptable successful 2023 should alert everyone to wherefore a extremist leftist similar Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed ought ne'er to clasp the bureau of United States senator.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., speaks to reporters arsenic helium returns to his bureau astatine the U.S. Capitol connected Feb. 10, 2026 successful Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

El-Sayed is simply a sworn force of the State of Israel, and I fearfulness that it is precise improbable that helium volition beryllium a protagonist of the American military. El-Sayed has besides repeatedly appeared with arguable left-wing streamer Hasan Piker, including astatine run rallies. His staunch allegiance to Piker telegraphs precisely what helium could bash if helium beats Republican Mike Rogers successful the fall: wreak havoc connected our subject and Israel’s defenses. El-Sayed has already called for a implicit embargo connected weapons income to Israel — adjacent antiaircraft weapons.

El-Sayed supports "the contiguous and broad enforcement of U.S. laws that information the proviso of subject assistance and sales." He argues this means "an contiguous arms embargo connected Israel," and El-Sayed specifically rejects the favoritism betwixt violative and antiaircraft weapons, meaning his presumption includes weapons specified arsenic Iron Dome interceptors, not simply violative bombs and missiles.

This stance places him among the astir outspoken Senate candidates opposing U.S. subject enactment for Israel. As a existent hater of Israel, would El-Sayed particulate disconnected the Tuberville playbook to effort to bring assistance to Israel to an end? There is nary crushed voters should presume helium would hesitate to bash so.  There’s a precedent, and it is casual to perceive a Sen. El-Sayed arguing that helium is conscionable deploying the aforesaid maneuver that a Republican legislator used.

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The question for Michigan voters is not whether 1 legislator could single-handedly unopen disconnected each American limb oregon dollar flowing to Israel. He could not. But Senator Tuberville’s 2023 blockade demonstrated however overmuch disruption a determined legislator tin origin by exploiting the Senate’s rules and customary procedures to hold enactment and unit governmental confrontations.

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It is hard to ideate El-Sayed losing slumber implicit the harm helium would enforce connected the U.S. military. That’s the anticipation Michigan voters person to see erstwhile they formed ballots this fall.

President Donald Trump, center, and GOP Senate campaigner erstwhile Rep. Mike Rogers, left, perceive arsenic Rep. John James, a Republican gubernatorial candidate, speaks astatine an lawsuit astatine the General Motors Proving Ground Monday, July 27, 2026, successful Milford, Mich. (Paul Sancya/AP Photo)

There are a fewer pro-defense Democrats left, including Michigan’s ain Elissa Slotkin. But conscionable arsenic GOP senators would not publically knock their workfellow successful 2023, the fistful of Democrats who are superior astir nationalist information would apt adhere to the unwritten codification of the Senate that prohibits nationalist attacks connected colleagues from their ain enactment conference.

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So the Michigan Senate contention is the astir important predetermination successful the state this year. The Republican volunteers consenting to spell to the battleground authorities and run for Rogers volition beryllium participating successful a origin overmuch bigger than themselves.

They volition beryllium protecting the country’s nationalist security. El-Sayed isn’t simply an extremist. He’s a unsafe extremist who should not beryllium successful a presumption to harm the country’s equipped forces.

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