When left-wing insurgent Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination for an open Senate seat in Michigan, Donald Trump cheered that it was “great news for the Republican Party.”

In an important way, he’s right. Many of El-Sayed’s policy views are far outside the mainstream. Even many Democrats agree with Trump that he will be a weaker candidate in November than the more pragmatic rival he narrowly defeated, Rep. Haley Stevens. And if Democrats lose Michigan, they have virtually no hope of reclaiming the Senate majority.

“It is deeply troubling to see radical, far-left candidates winning in places that are potentially presidential swing states,” Jonathan Cowan, the president of Third Way, a leading centrist Democratic group, warned in the New York Times.

But there is another way to look at this year’s primary results, where a number of liberal outsiders have ousted entrenched favorites. Voters often see these newcomers as “fighters” — as change agents who reflect a profound discontent that goes beyond ideology, injecting a jolt of energy into a party that’s been flailing since the Biden-Harris debacle two years ago.

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