The Zohran Effect: Far-Left Muslim Extremism Becomes the Face of the Democrat Party

After his shocking victory in the Democrat primary in the New York City Mayoral race, the Zohran Mamdani effect is taking hold throughout the country as other far-left Muslim radicals see this as their moment to seize power over their cities.

Enter Omar Fateh. Fateh is an elected Democrat state senator in Minnesota. He is the son of Somalian migrants. He did not grow up in Minneapolis, but moved there strategically to take advantage of the city’s demographic collapse in an attempt to boost his political ambitions. Fateh officially announced his bid for Mayor of Minneapolis last week.

The city of Minneapolis was ground zero for the Black Lives Matter revolution. After the overdose death of serial felon George Floyd while in police custody during the summer of 2020, the town burned for days with billions of dollars in property damage as thugs and looters were empowered. Floyd was turned into a demigod, a graven idol for the new post-Christian multicultural America. Fateh is hoping to keep that animus alive and channel it into momentum for his mayoral campaign.

It should come as no surprise to any educated observer that Fateh is practicing taqiyya, the Muslim practice of strategic deception against foes, in how he is presenting himself politically. Fateh is adeptly wrapping himself in a populist cloak, knowing that the fake news media will be too afraid to be maligned as racist to hold him to account for his lies. This is how he will win over the moderate and independent voter, building on the same scheme that Mamdani has worked to perfection in New York City.

“I’m running for Minneapolis Mayor because for working people, it’s getting harder to build our lives in this city we love. To make an affordable Minneapolis that works for everyone, we need a Mayor that works as hard as we do. I’m ready to get to work," Fateh said.

Fateh and Mamdani are long-time comrades and fellow members of the Democratic Socialists of America. Fateh helped to organize phone banks on Mamdani's behalf to assist him in his primary victory in the New York City mayoral race. Fateh has secured the endorsement of the Minnesota's Democratic Farmer-Labor party over the city's incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey, the first time the powerful DFL faction has endorsed a Minneapolis mayoral candidate in 16 years. This is a strong indicator of Fateh’s viability in November’s election.

Fateh's policies include making Minneapolis a sanctuary city for abortion and child sex change surgeries. He also wants rent freeze policies similar to what Mamdani has proposed for New York City. He also wants to raise the minimum wage to $20. Fateh vows to do everything in his power to hamper ICE from conducting raids to deport illegal immigrants in Minneapolis as well. Previously, Fateh had been under investigation for allegedly giving taxpayer dollars to a foreign TV station that was running propaganda for him.

Politicians like Mamdani and Fateh cannot be laughed off like they may have been in the recent past. Their policies may be absurd and dangerous, but their rhetoric is populist and their ability to connect with the American people is apparent. They will not hesitate to shamelessly lie, mislead, deflect, misrepresent and resort to sophistry to win over the voters. Mamdani was particularly adept in this respect, and Fateh looks to be cut from the same cloth. Fateh has a natural constituency of Somalians to rely upon, and that will make him incredibly formidable against any challenger as these ethnic enclaves in the age of widespread ballot harvesting are virtually unbreakable.

Republicans must lean into MAGA in order to fight back this rising socialist extremist threat. The politics of old are crashing down. New generations of voters are more independent-leaning and hate party-line nonsense. They are sick of machine politicians and desire an alternative. They demand a new path forward, and if Republicans fail to deliver on their promises, they will lose the nation and deservedly so. Cities like New York City and Minneapolis will inevitably fall to socialism, but it does not have to happen to the entire country.

Let us use these cities as points of reference to the primrose path that these radical policies will take our country down. But unless Republicans deliver a MAGA agenda consistently during and after the Trump era, there will be no defeating the Left in this existential battle for our nation.