At their state convention, Minnesota Republicans held a moment of silence for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
Like many other GOP state chapters, the Minnesota Republican Party has been unabashed about flaunting its extremism in recent years.
One of the clearest examples of this has been in the party’s promotion of far-right figures like Royce White, who rode the Minnesota GOP’s endorsement in his 2024 Senate race to a shellacking in the general election.
But even so, a moment of silence the party held for Derek Chauvin over the weekend — that is, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd — underscores a uniquely sadistic strain of racial bigotry within the state Republican Party.
The guy in charge of spying on you is typically drunk or polygraphing what’s left of his staff that wasn’t replaced with AI to see who stole his booze (which he drank and forgot about). They want you to believe Santa is always watching, and while we shouldn’t doubt they’re trying to get to Minority Report level, I agree that there’s too much info and too little skill. Even the most effective tyrannical bureaucracies are bureaucracies, filled with red tape, miscommunication, and petty tyrants willing to sabotage a rival to make themselves look good. They know they don’t have the Batcomputer, but if they can convince you to act like they do they don’t need it.