The killing of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and the flood of angry rhetoric following Mamdani’s primary win in New York City stem from a similar antidemocratic urge, civil rights advocate Zafar Siddiqui argues.
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The killing of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and the flood of angry rhetoric following Mamdani’s primary win in New York City stem from a similar antidemocratic urge, civil rights advocate Zafar Siddiqui argues.