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Somali Tribal Politics in Minnesota
from The Epstein Files & Thanksgiving In Syria | The Tim Dillon Show #471 · #471
5 min
He connects the regime-change cycle to a tangent about Somali immigrants in Minnesota voting along tribal lines against a politician, and how similar sectarian dynamics are now playing out in American state politics.
- Tribal and ethnic conflict is emerging in Minnesota state politics.
- Tim traces the post-9/11 promise that globalization and free trade would prevent war by making the world interconnected and interdependent.
- Globalization enriched the ultra-wealthy and the very poor while telling middle classes everywhere they weren't needed and could kill themselves with fentanyl.
- College-educated workers in tech and finance felt good about exporting Western civilization, discussing Afghan women learning to read over avocado toast at brunch.
- The government convinced people their safety and morality both depended on funding endless wars to remove dictators and create opportunities abroad.
- The strategy failed repeatedly—the Taliban returned, Syria's new leader is a jihadist, and the promised outcomes never materialized.
- Tim outlines the early-2000s consensus: invade countries, decapitate their leadership, install pro-Western puppet governments, and build hotels and shopping malls instead of madrasas.
- This neoconservative or neoliberal ideology dominated the Washington establishment, elite media, every journalism school, and Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
- Tim grew up on this philosophy listening to Fox News in his Long Island house, as did everyone in his generation.
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