Mike McFeely is right. There's no doubt that North Dakota socialism and New York City's Mayor Mamdani's version, although dissimilar in the extent of their socialisms, are from the same music sheet. North Dakota has never been conservative—all those Scandinavians and Russians never tended that way. Don't let the “red state” moniker fool you.

For example, read the NDGOP's social media praise for the vicious Dick Cheney: He “dedicated his life to defending American freedom and advancing conservative values.” Or he was “a man of conviction, strength, principle and service.” However the real Cheney campaigned wholeheartedly for Kamala Harris against Donald Trump, which apparently pleased the NDGOP's leaders. He signed off on torture of supposed terrorists, something that got postwar Japanese

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