JD Vance Called Abdul El-Sayed ‘Evil.’ He’s One to Talk.

(Photo illustration by Bill Kuchman/The Bulwark | Photos: Getty, Shutterstock)IN A YEAR WHEN DEMOCRATS have the wind at their backs and a shot at winning even in Texas, primary voters in Michigan have chosen a Senate candidate in Abdul El-Sayed who needlessly alienates many voters. But of all the Republican politicians to criticize El-Sayed, JD Vance may be the least well suited, because when it comes to tolerance for extremism and antisemitism, Vance and El-Sayed are almost equally matched players in a dangerous, illiberal game. It’s a mark of how far our guardrails have fallen that leading American political figures are engaging in more or less open race/religion baiting—and each is in high dudgeon that the other is doing it.El-Sayed has waded into extremist waters a number of times, mos