At 2 a.m. Michigan time last night, NBC projected that AIPAC’s candidate was on her way to look for a new job. Representative Haley Stevens’ defeat in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary is the last nail in AIPAC’s coffin. The once-feared Israel lobby is sinking, along with Israel, like a stone in American public opinion. Despite sixty-to-one spending against Abdul El-Sayed, Stevens couldn’t keep her head above water. AIPAC and its Israel-first Jewish billionaires turned Michigan into the most expensive Democratic Senate primary in American history and lost anyway.

Just think about it for a second: a PAC that backs a conservative candidate who champions tax cuts for billionaires in one congressional district, while simultaneously bankrolling a liberal who wants to tax the rich in another, is not a coherent American political agenda. If the only principle uniting those incongruent endorsements is the candidates’ unwavering support for Israel, then it is not for any domestic ideology or constituency, but to a foreign policy interest. That is the essence of AIPAC.

The Democratic establishment squandered its remaining credibility kowtowing to AIPAC, the most powerful foreign lobby, widening the chasm between the Democratic base and its leadership. AIPAC funding and endorsements from Democratic leaders like Chuck Schumer and Gretchen Whitmer carried little weight in Democratic primaries.

Ask Adriano Espaillat. Ask Dan Goldman. Ask Diana DeGette, a 15-term Colorado congresswoman who represented Denver since Bill Clinton’s first term. All three lost their seats in the same six weeks, and all three and despite AIPAC backing, lost for the same reason: they stood with Israel, or wouldn’t say the word “genocide,” while their own voters had moved on without them. In Michigan, the Democratic establishment’s endorsements, and its push to have State Senator Mallory McMorrow drop from the race to consolidate the anti-El-Sayed “Democratic”........

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