Last cycle this happened in a race in Michigan and AIPAC was likely the difference maker in taking away our other most progressive congressional rep, Andy Levin, a Jewish representative. I don’t think you could say Andy was ever going to be on the squad, but he vocally supported things like the green new deal and universal healthcare, where his opponent, Haley Stevens, is pretty much a corpo Dem that will vote however the money tells her to.

To be fair, it wasn’t a primary challenge, it was an artifact of a redistricting runoff, but Levin (a former synagogue president) had been critical of Israels policies.

In his concession speech, Levin did not mention the role that spending by the political action committee founded this year by AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby, played in his loss. But he did mention that Stevens’ supporters outspent his own by a factor of five to one, thanks to “outside money.”

They’ll certainly be coming for blood, and at least in Michigans case, some of us will end up far worse for the wear in the quality of who represents us.