Minnesota was liberal to begin with: It has the distinction of “voting blue, no matter who” since Jimmy Carter led the Democratic ticket, joining only the District of Columbia in refusing to give its electoral votes to President Ronald Reagan in 1984. For a while, the Hubert Humphrey model of Big Government, strong labor unions, and a business community that operated with a “social conscience” worked well. But in recent years, the social model of Scandinavian exiles has broken down, just its big brother did in Scandinavia itself. Joining us to discuss how Minnesota’s social model has collapsed as “some of the state’s leading politicians and sectarian interests” have come to “understand government not as a society’s shared instrument to address its problems, but as a storehouse to pillage” is Armin Rosen, a journalist who wrote on the state’s problems for Walter Kirn’s newspaper-magazine County Highway.
Sarah Lee
Sarah Lee was born and raised in Atlanta, Ga., but found herself drawn to Washington, DC, the birthplace of her mother, after completing a master’s degree in public administration from…
