Leave it to Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed to turn youth sports into a therapy-couch lecture on grievance, privilege, and mommy issues by attacking Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
El-Sayed portrayed Hegseth as just another over-hyped benchwarmer coasting through life on the unearned high of baked cakes, custom fan-gear, and overbearing suburban parents rewarding mediocrity. El-Sayed even leaned hard into personal pity, whining that as a minority athlete whose folks never showed up, by his account, he at least learned never to take himself seriously.
“Everybody knows that guy from the locker room,” El-Sayed ranted.
He continued:
He would have rode the pine. He probably got to start two games his entire career playing whatever sport he was and it made his life, and his parents came and cheered so hard for him. And as a kid whose parents never came, right, and started every game, part of me is just like, bro, I feel bad for you. Somebody told you a lot better than you really are. Like, there’s something about being a brown kid whose parents, like, you know, no matter what you do, you’re never enough. So what that means is that you never take yourself too seriously. Y...