To paraphrase Carmine Lupertazzi Jr. from The Sopranos, there are some that think Minnesota is at the precipice of a crossroads.
Others think that the state tripped over that precipice and, er, fell into the crossroads years ago.
The state - once synonymous with "good government" (a term that almost seems quaint, these days, like "pay phone" or "dial-up modem"), to the point where Time magazine (speaking of quaint) called it out...
The latest edition to my office wall ->
— Michael Brodkorb (@mbrodkorb) August 9, 2024
TIME Magazine, August 13, 1973: "The Good Life in Minnesota," featuring Governor Wendell Anderson.
The timing is perfect. pic.twitter.com/VMzGG42Ptt
... has become over the past decade a hotbed of social unrest, taxpayer-paid fraud and, if the Secretary of State's repeated defiance of court orders and federal requests is any indication, potentially really bad elections.
So if it's not too late to change things, what's going on in Minnesota today is a warning to Minnesotans. And if it is, it's a warning to states that are on the precipice of that same crossroads. I'm looking at you, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia and Arizona.
We've got a governor, still, who beclowned the entire state last year while impaling his political future in his debate with JD Vance:
As an independent voter, I feel that Vance is winning this debate. Walz has picked it up some but he made a pretty huge gaffe saying he was friends with school sh**ters. That's not going to play well in his favor tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/Mz3MoVDs2k
— Stormrider Francis (@gl1tchbyt3) October 2, 2024
But Tim Walz just keeps talking:
The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting. https://t.co/g8RmUMaEtN
— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) August 11, 2025
This is a governor who held "emergency power" for 15 months for an emergency that lasted three months. Who set up a "snitch line" so people could report neighbors who had people over for Thanksgiving. Who signed a thoughtcrime database to collect publicly-reported microaggressions (for what? Accessible by whom? We'll never know, because the DFL legislature made sure the database is kept more secret than the next Skunk Works stealth bomber, or maybe even Minnesota's voter records).
And let's not forget - since the regional media will not remind locals, to say nothing of the rest of you - that Minnesota has become one of the most corrupt and fraud-riddled states in the union.
Which brings us to Minneaoplis, the largest city in the state, and a place where "Democratic Socialist" Omar Fateh has been endodrsed by the DFL (the state's flavor of the Democratic Party) to run for mayor (he'll face Jacob Frey, the guy who was a national disgrace during the George Floyd riots but is, believe it or not, the "law and order" candidate, which has, believe it or not again, used against him by Omar's Democratic Socialists.
And for those of you who think Zohran Mamdani doesn't have competition, Fateh talked about his priorities:
Democrat socialist Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh says his top priority will be protecting criminal illegal aliens from our "hostile federal government." pic.twitter.com/Uv26gf7uGE
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 11, 2025
Not fixing potholes.
Not fixing Minneapolis's newfound economic stagnation, with a dying downtown, fleeing businesses, and a bloated city budget that is being foisted off on the residential taxpayer as businesses leave the city.
Not getting the city's crime rate under control. It's fallen since its 30-year peak in 2021, but still well above the norm. Because it actually fell? Or because the cops aren't arresting, becasue county attorney Mary Moriarty isn't prosecuting? Who knows?
No. Protecting illegal immigrants, including drug wholesalers and sex traffickers, from the feds.
I'm not sure if he's trying to out-Mamdani Mamdani; when people get that far out to the left, it's kind of hard to actually tell who's farther out.
Anyway - here's your warning. Heed it if you can.
