What is going on in the People's Republic of Minnesota? The Democrat establishment in the Gopher State is nothing like it was back in the Reagan years, with ex-Vice President Walter Mondale or Gov. Rudy Perpich. The insurrectionist echoes of their language about immigration-enforcement cops are eyebrow-raising in the same week the elitist media somberly mourned the attack on police at the Jan. 6 riot.

On Jan. 7, activist Renee Nicole Good used her car to try and block traffic to resist ICE agents. When she refused requests to step out of the car and instead drove her car into an ICE agent, the agent shot her. That's a terrible thing. But so was the shooting of activist Ashli Babbitt by a policeman on Jan. 6.

How is running over ICE agents not like threatening the Capitol Police on Jan. 6? If you don't believe ICE agents were in danger, then maybe you should read about how Cuban illegal alien Juan Carlos Rodriguez Romero "interacted" with ICE agents last Dec. 21.

On Jan. 5, a Justice Department press release noted when ICE agents initiated a traffic stop with Romero in St. Paul, he "refused to obey commands and attempted to flee in his car." He accelerated his car toward ICE officers who were on foot. He then lost control of his car, and ICE tried to apprehend him a second time. Romero again accelerated his car and struck one officer. When ICE officers actually apprehended him, he "bit one of the officers, drawing blood. Two ICE officers were transported to the hospital, suffering from bruised ribs, a dislocated finger, and a bite wound."

Last September, an illegal alien ran over and dragged an ICE agent in Chicago until ICE shot him dead. But there was no sympathy for the dragged agent. CNN and the rest of the press treated that as ICE brutality, absolving the violent cop-dragging. WBEZ, the Chicago NPR station, openly promoted assisting the ICE resisters: "Here's how you can help us track where ICE agents are being deployed in Chicago."

The Democrats align themselves with violent leftists resisting ICE. "Get the f—- out of Minneapolis," proclaimed Mayor Jacob Frey after Good was killed.

Gov. Tim Walz suggested he'd deploy the National Guard: "I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed, if necessary."

Minnesota Democrats openly allied themselves with Somali Americans who defrauded the federal government of billions of dollars. When Team Trump drew attention to this massive fraud, Walz called it "white supremacy."

These radical stances underline the wokeness, or the "anti-racism" of Democrats and their affiliated media outlets, who see everything through a lens of oppressive "white privilege." It's precisely this wokeness that enabled the massive fraud in the first place, and which now seeks to disable any attempt at deportations.

Will these stances hurt the Democrats statewide in Minnesota? They already caused Walz to drop out, and Sen. Tina Smith is retiring, so there's open seats, and Kamala Harris only won the state by four points. Will it hurt Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in the Senate race? She recently demonstrated her wokeness by donning a hijab in a video released on Christmas and proclaiming solidarity with our Somali "immigrant neighbors."

Wokeness damaged Kamala Harris in 2024, but Democrats can't seem to curb their pandering to illegal immigrants and Somali fraudsters. The "mainstream" media stand with the Democrat extreme on these issues, promoting Frey and Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison and the rest. But biased media voices — hailing their rants as "powerful" — can't always ensure victory.

Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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