Thirty minutes after being sworn in as president of the University of Michigan’s student government, Summit Louth was already back onstage campaigning for someone else.

The rising senior, a leading figure in the ascendant Human Rights Party, had just won office on promises to resist immigration enforcement on campus and force the university to divest from companies he says are “complicit” in genocide in Gaza. Now he was jogging across a stage to cheers beneath banners reading, “Abdul for U.S. Senate.”