Ellison on the Brink
17th August 2018
For years, the Minnesota press, led by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, has covered up for Keith Ellison. It has buried the stories of his long association with the Nation of Islam, his rank anti-semitism, his political radicalism, and, above all, his decades-long support for cop-killers.
It is a little ironic that Ellison’s brush with the “me too” movement may doom his candidacy, when there are far better reasons why he should never get anywhere near the office of Attorney General. Scott detailed Ellison’s long and enthusiastic advocacy for cop killers here. It is a sickening story; to call Keith Ellison depraved would be doing him too much justice. Yet it is a story that so far, Minnesota media have found too hot–or too troubling for the Democratic Party–to handle.
At this point, no one knows what will happen. My prediction, take it for what it is worth, is that Ellison will be forced to step down as the Democrats’ AG nominee. Not because he is a socialist or worse, not because he is a long-time supporter of the Nation of Islam and an anti-Semite, and most important, not because, as a life-long supporter of, and advocate for, those who murder police officers, he is utterly unfit to be the state’s chief law enforcement officer. Rather, because many Minnesota Democrats are bitter about the fact that Al Franken was driven out of office by his Democratic colleagues for far less.