Farmer–Labor Party

He had to end his campaign early because of this nightmare.

So what do you have to say about it? This is a question that, again, not only Minnesota Republicans, but Minnesota Democrats and Minnesota moderate independents, formerly of kinda the Farmer Labor Party-ish kind of crew, are rather interested in getting an answer to.

Tafoya has nothing to say about that.

Do you have any o- Do you have any ownership over the fraud that occurred over the last two terms of this administration?

And it was that solidarity that I saw in Minneapolis.

Because it wasn't the Democrat Farmer Labor Party of Minnesota that actually offered sufficient pushback to Donald Trump, and Donald Trump decided to say that Nazi Germany, the way that we were talking about Americans.

Somali Americans, they live in Minneapolis.

90% of them are American citizens.

All right, so a DFL Senate candidate in Minnesota.

That's the Democrat Farmer Labor Party.

It's the Democrat Party in Minnesota.

It's just a little bit more extreme, which Minnesota's been for a long time.

Well, there's a reason.

He was a member of the Farmer-Labor Party.

Oh, interesting.

This was different than the Democrats or the Republicans.

Mm-hmm.

They were the producers.

And a lot of the people that worked in the city had relatives on the farm, and he was elected by the Farmer-Labor people.

And so he had a much kinder, uh, attitude towards the workers than other governors might have had.

Back then, you know, Iowa was a swing state, and there is this kind of tradition of prairie populism that, you know, is certainly, you know, present in your home state of Minnesota.

You know, there's a reason that the party there is the Democrat Farmer Labor Party.

And that has kind of, it's stuck around in Minnesota, but it has been drifting away in Iowa.

And I think that, you know, that may be partly due to all the damage that has occurred to people in rural areas.

Teddy Roosevelt took on the capitalists in the progressive area.

Farmer Labor Party, hugely important in Minnesota's

history.

Again, openly socialist.

And then Abraham Lincoln did it again in 1860.

And third-party independent movements in America mostly moved the Overton window, whether it's the Greenback Party or the Labor Party, Farmer Labor Party, or the People's Party in the late 19th century.

that later transitioned into the Progressive Party and the Bull Moose Party, and even surge of the Socialist Party, the 19-teens, 1920s, people like Eugene Debs.

Or Huey Long, who was going to run for president in 1936 on a left populist platform until FDR helped take him out.