The Socialist Takeover of America’s Cities

Say hello to the new face of Minneapolis politics: Omar Fateh. He’s young, ambitious, and just clinched the city’s version of the democratic primary… which almost assures his final victory.

One might assume that winning a mayoral election would require a track record of competence, leadership, or results… But in today’s political landscape, Fateh checks all the boxes that really matter to the radical Left. He’s black. He’s Muslim. He’s the son of Somali immigrants.

Most importantly, he’s a self-declared socialist. And his wokeness is so ridiculous that Fateh’s campaign website actually feels like satire.

One of his major “visions” is to “Ensure that events like the Trans Equity Summit are fully funded and prioritized,” noting that, “The current Mayor has underfunded and mismanaged this event…”

A trans summit is the priority… for a city experiencing a massive crime wave while 33% short of its legally mandated police force personnel.

But Fateh doesn’t care about having too few cops. Instead he’s taken direct aim at law enforcement by publicly calling out the police department as “unmotivated” and “untrustworthy.”

Furthermore, Fateh plans to strip funding from the cops… yet at the same time says he will  eliminate the massive backlog of unsolved police investigations.

Sure, that seems totally plausible. Why not fire the doctors and hospital staff, yet simultaneously demand shorter ER wait times?

Fateh also wants to “end the cycle of the Minneapolis Police Department’s (MPD) violence and brutality that has held our city captive for so many years.”

This, of course, is the same city where George Floyd died under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer—an event that triggered nationwide “mostly peaceful” riots and turned the city into ground zero for the “defund the police” movement.

And standing front and center at the time was the city’s current mayor Jacob Frey— who Fateh is running against.

Frey’s reaction to Floyd’s death became symbolic of the broader wave of political theater that followed. He wept like a baby— uncontrollably with full-on convulsions— as he bent the knee at George Floyd’s casket… all while on camera, of course.

Meanwhile he presided over a city that soon descended into riots, burned police precincts, and spiraling violent crime. Instead of doing anything about it, Frey apologized for his whiteness.

This is literally the choice that the good people of Minneapolis have: Jacob Frey, or Omar Fateh— two leftist lunatics.

Fateh’s platform is amazing because he thinks that Frey isn’t extreme enough on the left.

This is why Fatah wants to launch a full-scale attack on private property. He wants to remove capital from the housing market entirely. Publicly owned social housing is the goal, with layers of rent control and mandatory rent-to-own schemes that would essentially confiscate landlord equity over time. Evictions would be all but outlawed.

Fateh might even be more radical than New York City’s socialist front-runner, Zohran Mamdani.

These two are part of a growing cohort of municipal leaders across America who are pushing an aggressively anti-capitalist agenda.

Compared to this crowd, even someone like New York’s former ultra-progressive Mayor Bill de Blasio starts to like Ayn Rand by comparison.

Mamdani wants to solve New York’s housing crisis—caused by decades of price controls and regulatory suffocation—by adding even more rent control. Grocery prices too high? His answer is to have the government own and operate the grocery stores.

That idea was also floated by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.

Johnson won by campaigning on taxing “the rich” and “big corporations.” His proposals included a new “head tax” on jobs, which has been a great way to increase unemployment in the city.

The fact that a guy like this could even compete, let alone win, tells you everything you need to know about the Chicago electorate. And seeing the writing on the wall, in the year before Johnson took office, Boeing, Caterpillar, and Citadel all moved their corporate headquarters from Chicago.

Chicago now faces a budget deficit of over $1 billion in FY 2025— up from around $200 million in 2024. Shocking.

While it’s tempting to dismiss this as just another “crazy urban leftist” story, the implications go far beyond city limits.

Urban centers are the economic anchors of an entire metropolitan area. When the urban core collapses—when law enforcement becomes paralyzed, when property rights are eroded, when the tax base flees—the rot doesn’t stay downtown. It spreads to surrounding areas.

Nor is this movement just in big cities. Socialist mayors are taking over places from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania to South Fulton, Georgia. Even Jackson, Mississippi elected a self-described socialist revolutionary, Chokwe Antar Lumumba. This trend is gaining traction.

Sure, we’ve had isolated socialist mayors before—Bernie Sanders in Burlington back in the ’80s comes to mind—but that was the exception, not the norm.

For most of the post-WWII era, from the 1950s through the early 2010s, open socialism in American politics was radioactive. But that era is over.

What we’re seeing now is the most successful surge of card-carrying socialists in local office since the early 20th century.

You and I talk a lot about the next inflation cycle—one that will be driven by unimaginable levels of debt, and the money printing required to keep the whole thing from imploding.

Yet my broader concern is how this coming inflation cycle could fan the flames of socialism even further. When an entire country is down economically, you will hear politicians blame capitalism… see people turn to socialism.

This movement will probably keep growing. It’s worth watching the trend.

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