The problem with socialist governments, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once said, is that they “always run out of other people’s money.” But that’s not stopping the Democrat Party from doubling down and nominating self-avowed socialists across the country.
Take Minnesota. It’s known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes — a place with pristine woodlands, open prairies, thousands of rivers, and all-American towns. In many places, it has the appearance of a Norman Rockwell painting. But in recent years, you’re more likely to find George Floyd murals on the sides of buildings, especially in cities. Minnesota has long embraced politicians with some unconventional, if not downright socialist, views and policies. From Walter Mondale to Jesse Ventura to Tim Walz to Ilhan Omar, Minnesotans love giving political power to wannabe communists.
It should be no surprise, then, that a new socialist has emerged on the scene. Omar Fateh is running for mayor of Minneapolis for a party inspired by the rise of Zohran Mamdani in New York City. Omar is a state senator representing the same area where George Floyd overdosed, and his platform includes free college tuition for anyone earning less than $80,000, including illegal aliens; defunding the police (that’s worked so well for the Twin Cities); raising the minimum wage to $20/hour; imposing a wealth tax; and blocking ICE from enforcing federal immigration laws. He opposes evicting the homeless from public parks.
Fateh also seems more loyal to the large population of Somalis now living in Minnesota, thanks to leftist open-border policies. “He’s made it very clear that he works with other Somali politicians in Minnesota to advance the interests of Somalia, not the United States,” Matt Walsh writes at The Daily Wire. “He’s also referred to Somalia as ‘our home,’ even though he was born in Washington and grew up in Virginia.”
In the Big Apple, Mamdani promises the same failed socialist platform, such as government-run grocery stores, free bus rides, rent freezes, taxing the wealthy, free childcare, and anti-ICE policies. In the recent past, he supported defunding the police as well as the burning and looting of Minneapolis during the Floyd riots.
“Calling to defund the police in a moment when their services were needed perhaps more than ever to maintain order as protests devolved into mass looting and violence,” Rikki Schlott observes at the New York Post, “shows that Mamdani’s allegiance is to the abstraction of ‘racial justice,’ not the peace and safety of his city.”
What makes the excitement that the Left has over Fateh and Mamdani so head-scratching is that socialism fails wherever it is tried. Look at any country that’s tried socialism and you will find empty grocery store shelves, third-world healthcare, and a population silenced by tinpot dictators.
We don’t even have to look outside the country to see the shortcomings of socialism. Kansas City opened a government grocery store in a so-called food desert created by socialist policies that drove other stores out of the city. The result? The shelves are almost entirely empty, and the store has lost nearly a million dollars.
Mamdani has denied being a communist, despite tweeting as recently as 2020, “each according to their need, each according to their ability,” quoting Karl Marx, the author of The Communist Manifesto. A quote doesn’t make one a Marxist, but promising Marxism does.
What the rise of these two communists really suggests about the Democrat Party is that it’s been hijacked by its most extreme elements. There’s always been a socialist thread running through the party, but now that it’s devoid of common sense and loyalty to America, that thread is exposed and expanded.
Even Democrat strategist James Carville has had enough. Writing an opinion piece for The New York Times, Carville characterized the party as “Constipated. Leaderless. Confused. A cracked-out clown car. Divided. These are the words I hear my fellow Democrats using to describe our party as of late. The truth is they’re not wrong: The Democratic Party is in shambles.” Carville added, “The Democratic Party is steamrolling toward a civilized civil war. It’s necessary to have it. It’s even more necessary to delay it.”
That civil war will be front and center before America’s eyes if Minneapolis elects Fateh and New York City elects Mamdani.
It’s no wonder that some party leaders have expressed concern that electing these crackpot communists might keep the U.S. House in Republican hands in 2026. Notably, some top Democrats, such as Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Chuck Schumer, have not yet endorsed Mamdani, despite criticisms from the progressive-socialist fringe.
Should Fateh and Mamdani win their elections, it’s likely to have a ripple effect in other cities. As our own Emmy Griffin predicts, “Mamdani is more than just a shooting-star candidate. Should he be victorious this coming November in being elected as mayor of America’s largest city, it would open the door for Marxists in other cities and states to gain elected positions of power.”
In the long run, though, it might be good news for Republicans and the country. As Americans see more of our big cities fall prey to the false promises of socialism, they’ll continue to wake up and reject the Democrat Party as a whole.
It’ll be interesting to see if the voters in Minneapolis and New York come to their senses, and whether the Democrat Party can get the clowns back in the clown car before it’s too late. If not, America’s about to see a clown show that’ll set Democrats back for another generation.
