Nick Pringle, a left-wing social media influencer and vocal supporter of newly elected Michigan Senator Abdul El-Sayed, posted a video to Instagram the day after the election with a specific message for Democrats entering power: "Nuremberg Trials, Democrats... You have been hired to do your worst."

The video racked up 26,000 likes.

Pringle wasn't speaking in metaphors. He named targets. "If Elon Musk is alive at Christmas, it has been a failure," he said on camera. He called for Stephen Miller and Jared Kushner by name. He proposed building what he called "Guantanamo Bay Two on Epstein Island" — which he branded "GuanPedemo Island" — as a detention facility for political opponents. "Go to work," he told Democrats. "The celebrating, that was for last night."

This is not an anonymous account with fourteen followers ranting into the void. Pringle has an audience. The video circulated widely in the hours after El-Sayed's Senate victory in Michigan, a race that drew national attention and sixty minutes of prime-time coverage. Twenty-six thousand people saw a man demand the execution of named Republican figures and decided that deserved a heart emoji.

El-Sayed, who campaigned on healthcare access and progressive compassion, has not denounced the video. He has not distanced himself from Pringle. He has not issued a statement. The senator-elect who built a brand on empathy and inclusion has, so far, found nothing to say about a supporter calling for the deaths of his political opponents by name on a platform with tens of thousands of engaged viewers.

The same political movement that spent the last two years warning that Republican rhetoric was a "threat to democracy" — that catalogued every Trump rally soundbite, that demanded social media platforms crack down on "stochastic terrorism," that held congressional hearings on the dangers of political violence — produced a video calling for mass executions of named individuals. The platforms that suspended accounts for questioning election procedures left this one up to collect likes.

Pringle invoked the Nuremberg Trials — the post-war tribunals that sentenced Nazi war criminals to death by hanging. He applied that framework to Republican political figures. Not dictators. Not war criminals. Elected officials, advisors, and a private citizen who runs a car company and a social media platform. The Nuremberg comparison isn't a rhetorical flourish. It's a specific historical reference to execution proceedings, and Pringle used it with a specific deadline: Christmas.

Abdul El-Sayed won his Senate seat on November 5, 2026. By November 6, a prominent supporter was on camera setting a timeline for killing Republicans. The senator-elect's public response, as of this writing, is silence.

Silence, from the "compassion" candidate, on a video demanding death.