The radical Left is starting to eat its own.
Internal warfare is tearing the Democrat Party apart.
And Ilhan Omar turned on Democrats with one brutal attack that exposed their dirty secret.
Democrats in Minnesota are at each other’s throats after party leadership pulled a fast one that has the far-Left seeing red.
The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) revoked its endorsement of state Senator Omar Fateh for Minneapolis mayor – and Omar couldn’t contain her rage.
Fateh isn’t just any ordinary Democrat candidate.
He’s a self-proclaimed "democratic socialist" who won the party’s endorsement fair and square back in July.
But apparently, that wasn’t good enough for the party establishment.
Omar goes nuclear on her own party
U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) unleashed a scathing attack on her own state party that left no doubt where she stands.
"It is inexcusable to overturn the DFL endorsement from Omar Fateh," Omar wrote on X, her fury practically jumping off the screen.
She didn’t stop there.
Omar accused party leaders of staging what amounts to a political coup, claiming "A small group, a majority living outside Minneapolis, met privately to overturn the will of Minneapolis delegates who volunteered, organized, and participated in a months-long DFL process. Unacceptable."
Think about that for a moment.
Omar is essentially calling her own party leadership a bunch of backstabbing power brokers who ignore the will of their own voters.
She even organized other leftist officials to sign a formal letter condemning the move.
The letter reveals the real battle happening inside the Democrat Party: "Right now, there is a clear tension between the progressive Democrats who are challenging the status quo and moderate Democrats."
The progressive House Democrat also wrote that "It is extremely disheartening that Omar Fateh, the first Black mayoral candidate to be DFL-endorsed in the last three decades, will have his endorsement revoked."
The socialist candidate Democrats don’t want to talk about
Here’s what makes this whole mess even more interesting.
Omar Fateh described himself as a "democratic socialist" in a 2020 interview with Jacobin Magazine – the same far-left publication that serves as a cheerleading squad for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Fateh defeated several other Democrat candidates, including current Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who’s running for a third term.
But when DFL Party Chairman Richard Carlbom announced the revocation, he conveniently avoided mentioning Fateh’s radical politics.
Instead, party officials cited "substantial failures" in its endorsement convention process.
How convenient.
Omar and her socialist allies have been compared to New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani – another self-proclaimed democratic socialist trying to seize power in major American cities.¹⁰
A Democrat civil war is brewing
And you know what this whole circus really proves?
A full-scale civil war is erupting inside the Democrat Party, and it’s only going to get uglier.
For years, Democrats have been moving further and further left, embracing radical socialist policies and candidates to energize their activist base.
Now they’re discovering that their own voters actually believe the socialist propaganda they’ve been peddling.
But here’s the problem – party bosses never intended for actual socialists to win.
They wanted to use radical rhetoric to fire up the base, but keep establishment candidates who could still appeal to suburban voters.
Now the activists and delegates who do the actual work of the party have taken the socialism seriously.
And party leaders are panicking.
Omar’s fury exposes the fault lines that are tearing Democrats apart from the inside.
On one side, you have the Squad and their socialist allies who think they deserve real power after years of being told they represent the future of the party.
On the other side, you have party establishments desperately trying to maintain control while their own activist base rebels against them.
This isn’t just about Minneapolis.
The same battle is playing out in Democrat parties across the country – radical activists demanding actual radical candidates, while party establishments scramble to maintain some veneer of electability.
Now party bosses are stuck trying to stuff the socialist genie back in the bottle, and they’re claiming voting irregularities to do it.
Omar’s attack letter admits the truth: "Chair Richard Carlbom campaigned on uniting the DFL; this decision directly runs counter to that effort, to which we are all committed. The DFL Party is a big-tent party and all factions should be fairly represented, not silenced."¹¹
Translation: the socialists are tired of having their victories overturned on technicalities by Democrat power brokers.
This kind of internal warfare isn’t happening in a vacuum.
Democrat parties across the country are dealing with the same problem – radical activists demanding actual radical candidates, while party establishments try to maintain some veneer of electability.
The Minneapolis mayoral race won’t be decided until November 2025, but the damage to Democrat unity is already done.
When Squad members are publicly torching their own state party leadership over "voting irregularities" that conveniently appeared after a socialist won, you know the Left’s coalition is imploding.
This kind of internal warfare signals something much bigger than one mayor’s race.
It’s the opening battle of a Democrat civil war that will define their party for years to come.
Omar’s warning that this decision will leave voters "feeling discouraged and unwelcome from participating in our party" sounds more like a threat than political analysis.¹²
The Democrat Party spent decades courting radical leftists.
Now they’re learning that radicals don’t like being told what to do by establishment politicians.
This is what happens when you make a deal with the devil – eventually, the devil comes to collect.
¹ Elizabeth Elkind, "Ilhan Omar erupts at own party for reneging on socialist candidate’s endorsement: ‘Inexcusable’," Fox News, August 22, 2025.
