The “good people” on both sides of Minnesota Republican Tom Emmer, who can't be bothered to hide his racism anymore

 

AI-generated image of Emmer in MAGA hat:   Manus 1.6 Lite   

 Headline:  Minnesota Reformer email, 6/28/2026

Editor-in-chief J. Patrick Coolican reports:

Someone should check on Rep. Tom Emmer, who is melting down in a fetid puddle of hateful xenophobia. 

“Sometimes Minnesotans are so afraid that you're going to call us a racist, you're going to call us an Islamophobe, you're going to call us some name that we just don't want to get into that fight. You know what, I would argue that I never did care, but I'm done being careful, even the least bit careful. If they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from." 

He made these comments at the Faith and Freedom Coalition town hall, as one does. 

Rep. Ilhan Omar had a pithy reply: "I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.”