{"id":332757,"date":"2026-11-05T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=332757"},"modified":"2026-11-05T06:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T06:57:20","slug":"giddy-democrats-let-the-mask-slip-with-dei-boasts-and-arabic-taunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=332757","title":{"rendered":"Giddy Democrats let the mask slip with DEI boasts and Arabic taunts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abdul El-Sayed, pictured with his wife, Sarah Jukaku, said \u2018praise be to God\u2019 in Arabic in his victory speech<\/span><\/p>\n

Benedict Smith, Poppy Wood \u2013 The Telegraph Nov 4, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Abdul El-Sayed appeared to have the last laugh as he addressed supporters in Michigan in the early hours of Wednesday.<\/p>\n

He had survived an ugly election contest, during which he was smeared by the president, his opponent Mike Rogers and the Republican establishment with claims of being a jihadist supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood who approved of 9\/11.<\/p>\n

Even his former Democrat rival for the Michigan senate race, Haley Stevens, endorsed Dr El-Sayed\u2019s Maga rival in a bombshell announcement on the eve of the vote.<\/p>\n

After that, the first Muslim senator in US history was probably entitled to a celebration, but a midterm elections<\/a> victory speech supposedly meant to thank his supporters seemed calculated to rile his enemies instead.<\/p>\n

Dr El-Sayed said: \u201cUp until right about now, you might have noticed I always say \u2018inshallah\u2019 or \u2018God willing\u2019 whenever the outcome of this race was mentioned. But today \u2013 tonight, we can turn that, inshallah, into an \u2018alhamdulillah\u2019 [praise be to God].\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking Arabic after a campaign marred by baseless claims about his religion<\/a> seemed like a move designed to provoke his political opponents.<\/p>\n

Fox News pundits, inflamed by the speech, were quick to pile in, with Joel Pollack, the California Post opinion editor, saying: \u201cYou don\u2019t start your speech with a kind of message to your Muslim supporters at first. I thought that was really grating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr El-Sayed is acting like a man permanently in campaigning mode. And in a sense, who could blame him? He has won the fight of his life, and it\u2019s hardly as if the Maga movement has ever been a magnanimous one.<\/p>\n

However, it means that he, and other like-minded Democrats<\/a>, risk handing their opponents the tools of their destruction at the moment of what seems total triumph.<\/p>\n

Triumph is giving way to triumphalism after a series of crushing wins by Democrats<\/a>, seizing Republican strongholds where they had been a footnote for decades \u2013 for almost a century, in the case of Kansas.<\/p>\n

They saw one blue wave and decided it was time for a beach party.<\/p>\n

In doing so, Democrats are making it easier for their opponents to caricature them.<\/p>\n

The reason they won back the House and Senate<\/a> by decisive margins was because, for the most part, they did not act like the \u201cradical Left lunatics\u201d that Mr Trump complains they are.<\/p>\n

James Talarico in Texas<\/a>, who became the first Democrat to win a Senate election in the Lone Star state since 1988, recognised that.<\/p>\n

His politics was doggedly centrist and speeches swaddled in religious and homely language, about \u201cloving thy neighbour\u201d and securing the border with a \u201cwelcome mat out front and a lock on the door\u201d. Despite this, he was cast by the White House as a vegan liberal pervert in the ranching heartlands of the country.<\/p>\n

Attack ads centred on his 2021 Texas floor debate, in which he claimed God was \u201cnon-binary\u201d, while JD Vance offered unsubtle insinuations about his sexuality and his interest in transgender children.<\/p>\n

The former teacher, who eats meat but has a vegan girlfriend, brushed off the remarks as \u201ccringey\u201d. At a dour Republican election party in Detroit, this stale brand of Maga politics was on display.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a freak! Talafreako!\u201d one woman shouted, using the president\u2019s nickname for Mr Talarico.\u00a0\u201cWhat the f— is wrong with people! Do people want socialism?\u201d<\/p>\n

At Mr Talarico\u2019s watch party in Texas, his supporters chanted \u201cU-S-A, U-S-A\u201d \u2013 hardly signs the new governor was a harbinger of Marxism.<\/p>\n

Taking to the stage after his shock victory over Mr Trump\u2019s handpicked candidate, Ken Paxton, whose campaign was supported by Elon Musk to the tune of $160m, Mr Talarico proclaimed: \u201cTonight, we defeated Goliath!<\/p>\n

Delirious Democrats ran around taking selfies, and hugging their friends. \u201cI\u2019m ecstatic … it feels unbelievable, I\u2019m not going to lie,\u201d said Iris Romero, a 30-year-old tech engineer.<\/p>\n

In Ohio, Sweet Caroline belted out after Amy Acton defeated Vivek Ramaswamy, the erstwhile presidential candidate and brief architect of the ill-fated Doge project<\/a>. The Republican\u2019s popularity nosedived after airing an attack ad about his opponent\u2019s sexual abuse, featuring her estranged mother.<\/p>\n

After being roundly rejected by voters, he said he had attempted to offer his concession to Ms Acton, but his call had gone to voicemail. Mr Ramaswamy said: \u201cWe left her a message. It\u2019s a tough night for us here in Ohio.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the message from voters was loud and clear: they want a candidate, not a culture warrior.<\/p>\n

Even Mr Trump offered a rare conciliatory tone, conceding that the Democrats had done a \u201cgood job\u201d and he would accept the results. Republicans also acknowledged their shortcomings.<\/p>\n

Trumpism obituaries being written<\/strong><\/h2>\n

At Butterworth\u2019s, Maga\u2019s bistro of choice, the party quickly turned into a funeral. Staffers bolted out of the room once results started coming in.<\/p>\n

A party organiser told Vanity Fair after Mr Paxton lost Texas: \u201cI\u2019m not trying to crash out. But we nominated Hitler with Down Syndrome. And guess what!? He lost! He lost! And now we lose a Supreme Court Justice. It is a f—ing disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n

The obituaries are already being written for Trumpism.<\/p>\n

The Democrats, though, would do well to remember why they succeeded, having refused to play Mr Trump at his own game, unlike during recent failed campaigns.<\/p>\n

And yet.<\/p>\n

Ro Khanna, the Democratic congressman, was one of the first out of the blocks early on Wednesday, lauding midterm wins as a victory for the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes that the Trump administration has sought to dismantle.<\/p>\n

In a video on social media, Mr Khanna said: \u201cTonight, DEI is back as America celebrated diversity and inclusion. Likely three black governors: the first Latina governor in Texas, the first Muslim American senator, the first gay senator. I love this America.\u201d<\/p>\n

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DEI is back! https:\/\/t.co\/ISsdTCwtzq<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) November 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n