There was one result from last week’s elections that, as you may remember, actually seemed like a tiny sliver of good news. And it came, of all places, from the city of Minneapolis — otherwise known as Little Mogadishu, otherwise known as the single worst place in the world to spend a fake $20 bill. Despite concerns that a Muslim socialist from Somalia named Omar Fateh would win the mayor’s race, ultimately, Fateh was defeated. The incumbent Democrat, Jacob Frey, emerged victorious by around 8,000 votes.
Frey, of course, is a weasel and a terrible politician. He’s most famous for genuflecting and pretending to cry before George Floyd’s golden casket. But Frey, for all his many obvious faults, was not the worst-case scenario. There were a small number of very bad ideas he opposed, believe it or not. Omar Fateh, on the other hand, would have been the Zohran Mamdani of Minneapolis. He wanted rent control. He wanted to dismantle the police department. And above all, he wanted to loot the treasury for the benefit of a hostile foreign country. And although it was a close race, Fateh lost. It was an apparent sign that Minneapolis, at least, wasn’t quite as far gone as New York. The election indicated that maybe socialism and Somali interests aren’t as popular in Minneapolis as we thought. So that was the good news — or so it seemed.
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