The Michigan Democratic Party — an actual, registered political organization that holds conventions and everything — just officially endorsed a guy named Amir Makled for the University of Michigan Board of Regents. Makled, a Democratic attorney, has a fun little social media habit: reposting praise for Hezbollah members and calling the group’s former leader Hassan Nasrallah a “martyr.”
At what point do we stop calling this “the party of tolerance” and start calling it “the party of Hezbollah”? Because they’re literally putting it on the ballot now.
For those of you who may have forgotten, Hezbollah is a designated terrorist organization. Not “controversial group.” Not “activist network.” A terrorist organization that the United States government has formally recognized as such. Nasrallah — the guy Makled was eulogizing online like a fallen hero — was the leader of that organization until Israeli airstrikes turned him into a memory in September 2024.
But sure, let’s put his biggest fan on the board of one of America’s most prestigious public universities. What could go wrong?
The Detroit News reported that Makled “reposted, and later deleted, praise for Hezbollah and antisemitic remarks on his social media account.” Ah, the old post-and-delete. The social media version of saying something horrible at a dinner party and then whispering, “I was just kidding” when the room goes silent.
He deleted the posts. He didn’t delete the beliefs. Those are still very much intact, and the Michigan Democratic Party looked at all of it and said, “Yeah, that’s our guy.”
Now here’s the part that really tells you where the Democratic Party is in 2026. Makled is described as “popular among young progressives” — the same crowd that turned college campuses into anti-Israel protest zones, set up tent cities on university quads, disrupted graduation ceremonies, and occupied campus buildings. The University of Michigan was ground zero for a lot of that chaos.
So naturally, the Michigan Democrats looked at that situation and thought: “You know what this university needs? A Hezbollah sympathizer on the Board of Regents. That’ll calm things down.”
(We’re talking about the board that oversees student governance, academic policy, and the direction of one of the largest public universities in the country. But hey, at least he deleted the tweets.)
This isn’t some random activist who snuck through a primary. This is the official state party endorsement. The Michigan Democratic Party held a convention, looked at their options, and said, “The Hezbollah guy. Final answer.”
Think about what that means for five seconds. A major state party — in a swing state that decides presidential elections — is now officially comfortable endorsing candidates who praise terrorist organizations. They’re not even embarrassed about it. They didn’t issue a statement distancing themselves. They didn’t pull the endorsement when the social media posts surfaced. They doubled down.
Because this is the Democratic coalition now. This is who shows up to their conventions. This is who they need to keep happy. The “young progressive” base that screams about Palestine on campus has become so powerful within the party that the Michigan Democrats would rather endorse a Hezbollah fan than risk losing their votes.
And they wonder why they keep losing Michigan.
Remember when Democrats used to at least pretend to be the party of “unity” and “bringing people together”? Those days are gone, folks. Now they’re the party that endorses people who call dead terrorist leaders “martyrs” and hopes nobody notices.
We noticed.
Parents of University of Michigan students — and there are a lot of them — might want to take a real close look at who the Democratic Party wants overseeing their kids’ education. Because the guy praising Hezbollah on social media is apparently their idea of qualified leadership.
Welcome to the modern Democratic Party. Where endorsing a terrorist sympathizer for a university board is just another Tuesday at the convention.