{"id":1785,"date":"2018-08-04T18:49:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T22:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:20:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:20:28","slug":"mehdi-hasan-interviews-abdul-el-sayed-progressive-candidate-in-michigans-democratic-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2018\/08\/04\/mehdi-hasan-interviews-abdul-el-sayed-progressive-candidate-in-michigans-democratic-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehdi Hasan Interviews Abdul El-Sayed, Progressive Candidate in Michigan&#8217;s Democratic Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BXxDPVTrEEI?version=3&#038;rel=0&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<blockquote><p>\nHe\u2019s been called the new Obama. Abdul El-Sayed, a 33-year-old doctor and health policy expert, has never held elected office. But he\u2019s running to be governor of Michigan \u2014 and if the size of his rallies is anything to go by, this charismatic and progressive insurgent could pull off a huge upset in the Democratic gubernatorial primary on August 7. <\/p>\n<p>The former director of Detroit\u2019s Health Department, El-Sayed supports \u201cMedicare for All,\u201d making college tuition-free, and raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. He\u2019s been endorsed by both Sen. Bernie Sanders and democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the shock winner of the Democratic primary in New York\u2019s 14th Congressional District, who has come out to Michigan to campaign for him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He has also been endorsed by Michael Moore and many others: <a href=\"https:\/\/abdulformichigan.com\/endorsements\">abdulformichigan.com\/endorsements<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s been called the new Obama. Abdul El-Sayed, a 33-year-old doctor and health policy expert &#8230; [is] running to be governor of Michigan <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2018\/08\/04\/mehdi-hasan-interviews-abdul-el-sayed-progressive-candidate-in-michigans-democratic-primary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,84,228,284],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abdul-el-sayed","tag-democrats","tag-michigan","tag-progressive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1076,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/03\/08\/indefinite-detention-targeted-in-democratic-bill\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785,"position":0},"title":"Indefinite Detention Targeted In Democratic Bill On Handling Terrorist Suspects","author":"aslam","date":"March 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesWASHINGTON \u2013 A pair of lawmakers on Thursday offered a bill that would repeal laws that allow the indefinite detention of Americans and others by the military without trial.Via huffingtonpost.com","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1682,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/05\/13\/ethnic-cleansing-of-palestinians-or-democratic\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785,"position":1},"title":"Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, or, democratic Israel at work","author":"aslam","date":"May 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesWhile we are still desperately concealing, denying and repressing our major ethnic cleansing of 1948 - over 600,000 refugees, some who fled for fear of the Israel Defense Forces and its predecessors, some who were expelled by force - it turns out\u2026Show original","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":56,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2017\/05\/19\/the-imperial-bureau\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785,"position":2},"title":"The Imperial Bureau","author":"aslam","date":"May 19, 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"In the 1950s, for example, the National Lawyers Guild, an association of progressive lawyers formed as an alternative to the segregated, anti\u2013New Deal American Bar Association, was preparing a report detailing the FBI\u2019s illegal wiretaps and dirty tricks. 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