One of the most in-demand campaign surrogates on the Democratic Socialists of America-aligned Left these days is a communist, pro-terrorism streamer named Hasan Piker. If that description feels uncharitable or hyperbolic, read on.

Numerous candidates have proudly aligned themselves with Piker, with some campaigning alongside him. Piker has come under withering and deserved criticism from Republicans, plus a relatively small handful of Democrats who’ve been courageous enough to condemn this dangerous, toxic, radical figure in their midst.

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In response to the incoming negativity, Piker has a message for the Democratic Party and the center-Left coalition writ large: You must defend me.

“Democrats, listen to me, I know we don’t always see eye to eye on a lot of stuff, but you have to literally, at some point — I know you don’t want to do this — defend me,” he insisted last week.

He went on, urging Democrats to back him up, “not because you love what I have to say, not because I’m part of this coalition, even though I am, whether you like it or not, but you are going to inevitably have to say, ‘This is a ridiculous conversation that we’re having’… That requires you to basically take the L a little bit and maybe be a bit more honest about how I’m not this dangerous, toxic radical force.”

If Democrats accede to his demands, what will they be forced to defend? Let’s review.

Piker infamously said that America deserved 9/11, the terrorist attacks in which jihadis murdered nearly 3,000 innocent people in 2001. One of his favorite........

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