Over the last few years, a number of friends around the country have said to me, following one of Ilhan Omar’s outrages, surely she can’t be re-elected now. I have had to explain that the things Omar does that we view as radical or worse are, sadly, popular with most of her constituents. This illustrates what I am talking about: the chairman of the Minneapolis DFL Party expounding on the glorious burning of the Third Precinct police station:
"… The people declared themselves ungovernable and unilaterally took their power back. The largest international human rights movement in modern history had begun. The youth of Minneapolis carried all of this. The cops started it."https://t.co/2cCe47HlzJ
— Peter Callaghan (@CallaghanPeter) August 9, 2021
These people are beyond reason. They aren’t going to change until the cities for which they are responsible hit rock bottom. And in their minds, at least, that hasn’t happened yet.
UPDATE: Devin Hogan, the Minneapolis DFL Chairman, has responded to criticism of his cheering on of arson, rioting and looting. I don’t want to be harsh, but he sounds almost unbelievably stupid:
No doubt the Democrats would like for guys like this to shut up, but the fact is that Devin Hogan represents what today’s Democratic Party is, and they will have to live with it.
Notice: All comments are subject to moderation. Our comments are intended to be a forum for civil discourse bearing on the subject under discussion. Commenters who stray beyond the bounds of civility or employ what we deem gratuitous vulgarity in a comment — including, but not limited to, “s***,” “f***,” “a*******,” or one of their many variants — will be banned without further notice in the sole discretion of the site moderator.