Minnesota Democrats pick Muslim Migrant Socialist as their Candidate for Minneapolis Mayor

He wants to raise the minimum wage, which will sharply increase unemployment, and defund the police. What could possibly go wrong? The ensuing chaos can be exploited to impose the authoritarian measures that the left wants.

“Minnesota Democratic Party endorses Omar Fateh for Minneapolis mayor,” by Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, July 20, 2025:

Minnesota’s branch of the Democratic Party endorsed far-left Minnesota State Sen. Omar Fateh’s campaign for mayor of Minneapolis on Saturday.

Fateh announced the endorsement from the Democratic Farmer-Labor (DFL) party on social media. He secured the endorsement over incumbent mayor Jacob Frey, also a Democrat.

“I am incredibly honored to be the DFL endorsed candidate for Minneapolis Mayor. This endorsement is a message that Minneapolis residents are done with broken promises, vetoes, and politics as usual. It’s a mandate to build a city that works for all of us,” Fateh wrote on X….

Fateh has received many comparisons to New York City’s Zohran Mamdani. Like Mamdani, Fateh is a Muslim Democratic socialist and, at 35, a fellow member of Generation Y.

Fateh, a son of Somali immigrants, became the first Somali-American elected to the Minnesota Senate in 2020. He pledges that, if elected mayor, he would raise the city’s minimum wage, increase the supply of affordable housing, and combat what he calls “police violence.”…

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