Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Omar Fateh Offers Bad Ideas

Minneapolis has a new candidate for mayor. Meet Omar Fateh, a Democratic state senator who, much like NYC’s Zohran Mamdani, thinks real socialism has never been tried. Fateh, the son of Somali immigrants to the U.S., is also Muslim.

Both detractors and supporters have focused far too much on this aspect of Fateh’s identity, veiling what actually matters: that Fateh has hare-brained ideas about how to govern.

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Kayla Bartsch

Kayla Bartsch is a former William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow in Political Journalism at National Review.

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Minneapolis has a new candidate for mayor. Meet Omar Fateh, a Democratic state senator who, much like NYC’s Zohran Mamdani, thinks real socialism has never been tried. Fateh, the son of Somali immigrants to the U.S., is also Muslim.

Both detractors and supporters have focused far too much on this aspect of Fateh’s identity, veiling what actually matters: that Fateh has hare-brained ideas about how to govern.