Although you have provided no references to back up any of your charges, I have no reason to doubt your research even though strongly disagreeing with your conclusions. There's a reason Minnesota is still considered a swing state in presidential politics, however. Here are some stats from the Pew Research Center.

Systemic racism built into America's domestic police forces is inherently a right-wing mentality transcending politics, but if you are a filthy racist then the chances are that you will vote Republican and that you are an ardent, blind Trump admirer, which certainly doesn't mean that if you are a Republican then you are an automatic racist. There are many good Republicans who make valid points. They're just getting harder to find in Trumptopia.

But this is all of America's problem no matter the stripes of her citizenry. And it's been going on far too long -- since European invaders first started displacing, torturing, and murdering millions of indigenous peoples, and introducing slavery on a massive scale, displacing, torturing, and murdering millions of African people.

Back to election politics:

If Republicans insist on falsely pinning the so-called "evils" of socialism on Democrats, which they've pulled out of their collective butt (Fux News, Hate Radio, and the Swampnet) -- all the while enjoying the benefits of socialism in their everyday lives brought to them by Democrats fighting Republicans tooth and nail for the last 100 years or so -- then they should live with the well-deserved label of FASCIST, which is an accurate rendering of their right-wing policies and undemocratic mindset lo these many decades.

Or do you not know the general arc of the history of modern American politics that has culminated with a low-IQ, egomaniacal racist occupying the Executive Branch, who loves unleashing stormtroopers against peaceful citizens exercising their right to peacefully assemble and redress their grievances, and a Republican Senate in the pocket of Wall Street tycoons? Indeed, the low-information and sadly misinformed wingers in Minneapolis and across America "should reconsider how they cast their ballot[s]."

Absolutely, certain right-wing Democratic leaders (yes, wingerism has infected both major parties) are guilty as hell (Mayor Deblasio) insofar as they follow the lead of their Republican fellow fascists. That is fundamentally changing as we speak, so politicos on both sides of the aisle had better start listening to the People shouting (and dying) in the streets.

Be safe. Wear a mask. Honor social distancing guidelines.

The reference that I provided supports Deblasio's specific actions in relation to the police and protesters as right-wing fascism despite his political reputation and/or history as a progressive. What exactly is progressive about kowtowing to the goons in NYPD? Keep up with the times; we're talking today, not yesterday.

Ditto for Klobuchar.

Indirectly, you are making my points. Thank you. 👍🏻

How so? Please explain. Remember, I don't give a sht about the history of phony progressives or your anecdotal experiences thereof, only the startling events taking place right now, in the present, right before our eyes that, in the end, transcends politics, or should. Can you refute the points made in the Times article about systemic racism in the NYPD and de Blasio's culpability as mayor?

By the way, a large duffle bag with all of my Government Issue Army crap lies at the bottom of the East River with the rest of the dead bodies. Bad memories forgotten. A fitting end. Goodbye New York...

@deepspace

Thanks for the links. I will accept the new york times op ed for Blasio not being progressive enough. It is based on a variety of issues for quite sometime. But CNNs "analysis" focussing on an issue and devoted (title) on Klobachar's chances/ambitions for VP, may have raised a red flag, but it is too early (without further evidence) to reach a verdict.

Is it not common that even the most progressive minds , once in power they often shift to less and less progressive positions? Often the shift goes so far to the left, or to the right or to any other direction that it is hard to discern their practice from an authoritarian for-the-good-of-all practice. Somehow governing turns on an authoritarian "gene" in many cases. Would you call the Clintons progressive nowadays? Tony Blair (UK)? Joseph Stalin ( a born-poor-progressive?) Erdogan?

In ancient Athens there was the interesting policy of ostracism (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism). A way for the people to ask (demand) someone feloow citizen to take a 10year "voluntary" leave (exile) because he was deemed too famous and too important and the risk that he may turn to a tyrant was just too high. Perhaps, ancient Rome did not have this policy. But even if it did, that did not stop Julius Ceasar from becoming a dictator (ok at he end he had to use some military "persuasion"). A similar story would unfold later with Napoleon and Hitler.