Far-Left Streamer Celebrates 80-Year-Old Senator’s Win Over Younger Moderate

Liberty Check

• Controversial socialist influencer Hasan Piker cheers as octogenarian progressive defeats moderate 47-years younger
• Massachusetts Democrats choose far-left ideology over youth and common sense on transgender sports
• Progressive movement doubles down on Green New Deal and radical gender policies despite national backlash

Hasan Piker, a controversial Twitch streamer and far-left activist who has supported several challengers against moderate Democrats, celebrated the victory of Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., in a primary contest that pitted the 80-year-old progressive stalwart against a far younger and more centrist candidate.

“It’s very clear that the Dem voters care more about policies and having a progressive represent them in the Senate than age! Another w for our movement!”

Piker wrote those words on X after Markey defeated Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., who is 33 years his junior. The primary results reveal a Democratic Party unwilling to embrace generational change when it conflicts with radical progressive orthodoxy.

Markey defeated Moulton, who centered his campaign on generational change, by casting himself as the race’s true progressive. He repeatedly questioned Moulton’s progressive credentials while continuing to push for transgender rights, particularly in sports — a position many Democrats have shied away from after witnessing voter backlash across America.

The position, which Republicans have used as a political rallying cry on the campaign trail and which Democrats have largely avoided as they push to flip both chambers of Congress, is one that Moulton argued played a major role in Democrats’ losses across the board in 2024. Yet Massachusetts Democrats chose ideology over electoral wisdom.

“Trans athletes should be able to play,”

Markey told The New York Times, doubling down on a stance that cost Democrats dearly in recent elections. “That reflects Massachusetts and who we are. And Seth Moulton does not.”

Markey has also supported aggressive legislation on climate change, a platform that helped win over even groups that center around younger audiences. The Sunrise Movement, which describes itself as a “movement of young people fighting fascism to win a Green New Deal,” rushed to celebrate his victory.

“VICTORY! Congratulations to Ed Markey on his victory in Massachusetts tonight. Sen. Markey has been a leading climate champion in the fight for a Green New Deal to create jobs and lower costs for working people,”

the group said in a statement to X, embracing the same radical climate policies that would devastate American energy independence and burden working families with skyrocketing costs.

David Axelrod, a top political consultant and former advisor to President Barack Obama, noted that Markey hadn’t always been a darling of the progressive left ahead of Tuesday’s election. He credited Markey’s pivot for his political longevity — a damning indictment of political opportunism over principle.

“[Ed Markey] was first elected to Congress 50 yrs ago as a social conservative, opposed to abortion rights and school busing,”

Axelrod said in his own post to X. “Now 80, he’s likely to sail in tonight’s primary in MA, despite his age, because, in his Golden Years, he’s grabbed on to the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, trans rights and other marquee priorities of the Left.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., also praised Markey’s win. Like Markey, Sanders, 84, continues to shape the progressive movement despite the decades between him and many of its younger candidates — revealing that the so-called “new” progressive movement is led by octogenarian socialists.

“Congratulations to Ed Markey on his landslide victory in the Democratic Massachusetts Senate primary. Ed knows that, at a time of massive income and wealth inequality, Congress must take on the billionaires and fight for working families,”

Sanders wrote, deploying the same class-warfare rhetoric that has defined his decades-long political career.

Having cleared the primary election, Markey now heads to the general on Nov. 3, where he is heavily favored to win in the deep-blue Bay State. Markey last won reelection in a 66.2% to 33.0% victory over Republican challenger Kevin O’Connor, a local attorney.

The Massachusetts primary reveals a Democratic Party more committed to radical ideology than electoral pragmatism, youth, or common-sense policies that reflect mainstream American values. While Democrats claim to champion a new generation of leadership, they continue elevating octogenarian progressives who embrace positions rejected by voters nationwide.

Americans deserve better.