The old idea “Minnesota Nice” popularized by Garrison Keillor doesn’t seem to apply to the state’s biggest city, Minneapolis, anymore. In 2020, the city erupted into chaos directed against the police, and now running for mayor is a radical named Omar Fateh. Brandon Goldman details Fateh to readers in The Spectator, writing:
Fateh’s progressive platform echoes that of young politicos of similar stripes. His support for eliminating the police, once emblazoned on his campaign website, has since vanished. He’s called for a $20 minimum wage, free public transit (in the spirit of Mamdani), and legislation to dismantle legal protections for cops by ending qualified immunity and repealing laws that make it a crime for civilians to falsely report police misconduct.
On the bright side, slashing police budgets would open up funds for “economic justice” services for “LGBTQ+ and BIPOC people,” like the Trans Equity Summit, which Fateh vows will be “fully funded and prioritized.”
Life for those “experiencing homelessness” is also set to improve – not with the hard, unpopular work of pulling people off the streets or prying them loose from the grip of fentanyl – but supplying encampments with handwashing stations and needle disposal bins.
His legislative record hints at an even more radical agenda: he sponsored a bill for slavery reparations despite the practice never having been legal in Minnesota, a bill to ban bottled water, and, peculiarly, a bill seeking to outlaw the sale of dogs and cats. He’s managed a couple of small successes – pushing through protections for Uber and Lyft drivers and a bill that promised free college tuition for working-class families.
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