Jesse Watters can’t seem to stop admiring Dr. Abdul El-Sayed. The Fox News host loves to talk about how Michigan’s Democratic nominee for the Senate is “in great shape” and how “Abdul . . . beat the machine” — meaning the party establishment’s candidate, Rep. Haley Stevens — in a hard-fought primary. During an interview in August, Watters clearly enjoyed El-Sayed’s jokes and blunt speech, which included calling his opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, a “beta,” and asking the host if he was circumcised when Watters tried to corner him on gender-affirming surgery for minors. The next day, Watters made no bones about El-Sayed’s appeal. “I like him,” he said. “I don’t want to like him. I like him for some stupid reason.”
But the reason was obvious. The doctor-turned-politician has an aggressive bro style that appeals to someone like Watters. Quick-witted with bulldog energy, El-Sayed never backs down from a fight. But despite Watters’ admiration, Fox News has become obsessed with taking El-Sayed down. It’s not because he’s Muslim, though Republicans are ratcheting up the racism in their efforts to derail his campaign. It’s because he is a model for how Democrats can escape their reputations for being weak and feckless.
Turdpublicans are bullies. Of course they can’t handle it when someone punches them in the nose.
They are handling it the same as they always do by being brain-dead mouth breathing racist shitbags
Yeah… intelligence and the truth scare the dogshit out of them. They’re good at name calling. That’s about their entire strategy. They really like name calling other people what they’re really doing. Trump says “dem election fraud” when in fact it’s his election fraud. Congress calls dem presidencies corrupt and full of fraud and instead it’s the republicans who have almost, ALMOST… overturned the American government.
Watch out though - those sorry redcoats resort to violence, because after all, America is ALMOST trump’s “mob” - and that’s how animals “rule”.
Well, we need a lot more quick witted democrats because the majority of them are like deer in headlights.
They’re still shocked that the GOP won’t play nice.
Bro style? He’s a reserved person of color who knows any aggression will get him called a terrorist. The MF is so cool and collected it blows my mind. Standing up for yourself, caring about others, and not getting pulled into immature name calling isn’t being a bro. People forget what a real grown ass man looks like.
not getting pulled into immature name calling
He called his opponent a beta multiple times on his Fox News interview.
He definitely has a bro persona that he puts on to cater to certain audiences, which is good, a politician should be able to communicate with different groups on their level. Democrats do have a problem meeting young men / bros where they’re at. If him calling Mike Rogers a cuck gets more disaffected young men to vote for him instead of the Republicans I’m all for it
Bro has pretty much become a derogatory term on the left, but a ton of young men identify with that sort of culture and we can’t just call them all misogynists and cede them to the right if we want to win.
I understand your perspective and it makes sense to me. I just don’t think that stuff is bro-y IMHO. Seems more like trying to reach younger voters (… who happen to be bros… 🤔)
Glad to know I’m not the only one who noticed this. Him and Mamdani are brave people despite the bigotry. Their fighting prowess (which corporate Dems lack and it’s by intention from them) is what’s very needed to push against fascism.
If Democrats won’t fight for themselves, how can they be expected to fight for us? Time to follow Mamdani and grow a spine!
