Tim Walz and the DFL/DSA machine keep selling the same product after eight years of measurable failure. Due North. Equity centers. Another $41 million in race-weighted teacher grants. Grow Your Own pipelines, mentorships, and tuition aid sorted by racial category. The press releases still claim they are “building the best teaching workforce in the nation” and closing gaps “no matter race or zip code.”
This is not policy error. It is a pattern.
The minute you look at another person or group as less capable than another person or group, you are the racist bigot. That is the core assumption baked into Due North and every follow-on grant. The machine treats certain children and certain adults as if they cannot succeed without permanent racial engineering, set-asides, lowered bars, and protected-class preferences. That is not compassion. That is contempt dressed up as virtue. It is the same sick mindset that has animated the worst dictators in history: sort people by blood and identity, declare some groups inherently deficient or inherently privileged, then seize power to “correct” the imbalance. Minnesota’s version uses grants and equity centers instead of secret police, but the logic is the same.
Race-based checkboxes do not lift the students the machine claims to champion. They harm them. They harm every Minnesota child who sits in a classroom where competence is subordinated to demographic targets. MCA results show majorities still not proficient in reading and math. NAEP scores show the long slide. Racial gaps persist. Graduation theater continues while basic skills erode. The children used as political props pay the price.
This is gaslighting on a statewide scale. The administration and its nonprofit partners insist the medicine is working while the patient declines. It functions like Munchausen by proxy: keep the dependent “sick” enough to justify endless intervention, more funding streams, more race-conscious bureaucracies, and more moral authority for the caregivers. Every new announcement is framed as rescue. Every failure is blamed on residual “systemic” forces that somehow require even more of the same treatment.
There is no balance. Hiring, retention, and pipeline dollars are sorted by race. Affirmative action regimes and preferential contract language treat certain teachers as more protected than others based on identity. The Justice Department has sued. A federal judge expressed “grave doubts” about the legality of the racial discrimination even while dismissing one case on procedural grounds. The machine keeps going.
After eight years the results match intentional design, not accident. Ghost students still flood Normandale and the Minnesota State system—nearly a third of applications at one campus flagged as potentially fraudulent, tens of thousands processed, millions in federal aid identified as stolen. Athletic instability at places like Minnesota West in Worthington is another symptom of institutional rot. Teacher shortages are answered with more race-prioritized grants rather than higher standards and better conditions for every competent educator. The pattern matches the daycare fraud, the COVID relief theft, and the election-integrity failures: manufacture a crisis narrative, expand the public-money pipeline, protect preferred networks, and punish anyone who notices the outcomes.
Minnesotans of every background lose. The race checkboxes do not produce better readers or stronger math students for any group. They produce patronage, protected-class politics, and more opportunities for fraudsters. The bigot’s premise—that some groups are less capable and therefore need permanent special handling—is the engine. That premise is a lie. It is also a sin against the dignity of every human being made in the image of God.
A constitutional republic does not sort citizens by race for public employment or public education. It demands equal protection and measurable competence. Minnesota’s schools should produce literate, numerate citizens capable of self-government and productive work—not activists trained to see every shortfall as proof that more racial engineering is required.
The vision is reachable. Hire and retain teachers for knowledge and character. Verify identities so ghost students stop draining aid. Restore rigorous standards instead of lowering bars. Return authority to parents and local communities. End the extraction model.
Christ is King. Truth is not optional. After eight years the data is clear: the race-obsessed machine is not failing the children it claims to help by accident. It is succeeding at the only outcomes it has consistently produced—declining skills, persistent gaps, expanded grift, and the bigot’s lie dressed as mercy. Minnesota can do better. It must.