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On Tuesday this column noted the attempt by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) to giggle away the destructiveness of the left’s “Woke 1” agenda in 2020. Now voters in Minnesota’s race for an open U.S. Senate seat can express whether they also find it amusing. That’s because Democrats have chosen as their nominee Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who rarely missed a 2020 opportunity to embrace ideological excess. In June of 2020 the Associated Press reported from Minneapolis: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said at a news conference Thursday afternoon that there will be legal consequences for the people who lassoed and pulled down a statue of Columbus on the Minnesota State Capitol grounds in St. Paul on Wednesday evening. But lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan, a Native American from the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, made clear that she was glad to see it go. She chairs a board with oversight over the Capitol grounds and had been trying for years to get it removed. She later said the explorer’s legacy was “setting in motion generations of violence, rape and genocide against indigenous people. Placing a statue of a historical figure on the Minnesota State Capitol grounds confers an honor to their legacy. There is no honor in the legacy of Christopher Columbus,” she said. Having failed to persuade others in a lawful process, it seems that Ms. Flanagan welcomed the actions of a mob.
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