{"id":90096,"date":"2026-01-12T06:16:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90096"},"modified":"2026-01-12T06:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:16:40","slug":"quid-pro-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90096","title":{"rendered":"Quid Pro Quo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Part of being a conservative &#8211; and a participant in Western civilization, for that matter &#8211; is treating people as individuals rather than collectives. \u00a0It&#8217;s one of the things that makes Judeo-Christian society objectively better than the alternatives. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes groups are gonna group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Walter Hudson describes his observations after three years of reaching out to Somali leadership:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#39;s why my good faith attempts to build bridges between the Republican Party of Minnesota and the Somali community crashed and burned. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lHnB5hWHTT\">https:\/\/t.co\/lHnB5hWHTT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fmgdavmVPe\">pic.twitter.com\/fmgdavmVPe<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Walter Hudson (@WalterHudson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalterHudson\/status\/2010580715797414029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He stresses he&#8217;s largely referring to the community&#8217;s leadership, and with good reason; there\u00a0<em>are\u00a0<\/em>good Americans, and good Republicans, among Minnesota Somallis &#8211; because people,\u00a0<em>as individuals,\u00a0<\/em>have the free will to exercise their freedom of conscience. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Rep. Hudson is right in saying that the community needs a lot more of them, and they need to actually move the needle within that community &#8211; especially since it appears the grifting dollars might start drying up soon, if the DFL doesn&#8217;t manage to gaslight its way out of this round of scandals. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outreach has to go both ways.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,483,2,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-fraud","category-minnesota-politics","category-sovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90097,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90096\/revisions\/90097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}