The Danger of the Deconstruction of America’s Founding Foundations as Seen from Omar’s Re-election (Part 1)

(Jennifer’s note: The following article was written by my good friend, Canadian writer Ms. Sheng Xue. I believe that the “civilizational backflow and reverse assimilation” she proposes in the article, the tactical convergence against civilization formed by the “green” represented by extreme Muslim theocracy and clan loyalty, and the “red” represented by the Western radical far-left that has carried forward the characteristics of communism, which together deconstruct the foundations of America’s founding, offer a truly sobering and deeply alarming analysis of how the foundations on which the United States was built are being dismantled.

If the United States and other Western societies continue to ignore the problems discussed in this article, we may indeed face the wholesale erosion of the foundations of our nations and of Western civilization itself.

For this reason, I have translated her lengthy Chinese essay into English, in the hope that the issues she raises will receive the serious attention they deserve in the English-speaking world.)

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In mature Western liberal democratic systems, elections are ordinarily regarded as the expression of the voters’ will, a mechanism of accountability for public power, and a barometer of the health of the political system. Yet when the underlying culture and social ecology of elections undergo a qualitative change, what the vote reflects is no longer the vitality of democracy, but a deep mutation of a nation’s constitutional foundations.

Ilhan Omar, the first Somali-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress, won the Democratic primary for the 2026 midterm elections held on August 11, 2026, with an overwhelming vote share of more than 80 percent. She successfully secured the Democratic nomination for Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District and is now fully contesting her fifth term in Congress.

Core election data — according to the Minnesota election database and related media vote tallies, the results of this Democratic primary were:

- Ilhan Omar (incumbent): 122,640 votes, 80.7 percent, securing victory.

- Julie Trang Le: 10,201 votes, 6.7 percent.

- Latonya T. Reeves: 9,131 votes, 6.0 percent.

Electoral background and subsequent outlook — Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District (centered on Minneapolis) has the largest Somali-American community in the United States and is also one of the most solidly Democratic districts in the country. In the November general election: Omar will face Republican primary winner John Nagel on November 3, 2026. Given the traditional political leanings of the district, Omar is highly likely to win re-election easily.

On the surface, this outcome may appear to be yet another political victory for a radical lawmaker. But viewed in the historical context of Western constitutional development, and against the profound changes taking place in the constitutional foundations of the United States, I believe this is far more than an isolated case of a controversial political figure winning another election.

This case is precisely a telling microcosm of the multiple, systemic forces now eroding the foundations of the American republic: demographic restructuring, the weaponization of institutional loopholes, insular tribalism under the banner of pluralist politics, and what might be called “reverse colonization” and an “anti-civilizational backflow.”

I. Core Deconstruction — From Civil Society Degenerating into Ethnic Tribes

To see through the constitutional crisis behind the Omar phenomenon, one must analyze several core dimensions by which it deconstructs modern democratic institutions:

1. Demographic Reconstruction and Specific Closed Tribes

Traditional representative democracy can function effectively only on a constitutional cornerstone: that every individual, upon entering the public sphere, voluntarily accepts a “civic contract” centered on individual liberty, the rule of law, institutional constraints, and secular reason, regardless of ethnicity, faith, or background, and seeks the greatest common ground in public affairs.

However, when a large-scale immigrant group that is difficult to assimilate into constitutional values, and that is highly closed in ideology and social circles, is introduced into a specific area in a short period of time, the melting-pot mechanism of representative democracy is rendered obsolete.

The electoral mechanism thereby undergoes a fundamental degeneration. It is no longer a rational debate over the merits of public policy, nor an accountability for a candidate’s governing ability and personal integrity, but degenerates into a “head-count contest” based on blood ties, ethnicity, and religious belief. Voters’ motivations retreat from “independent civic will” to “tribal identity solidarity.”

2. Human Rights and Democracy Distorted into a Means of Holding Constitutional Rule of Law Hostage

The core achievement of the modern liberal democratic human-rights constitutional system is the establishment of an extremely meticulous and comprehensive system of human-rights protection and inclusion. From preventing the abuse of public power, to eliminating discrimination based on race, color, nationality, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation, to preferential protection for minorities and vulnerable groups, this legal barrier built on equality and justice was originally intended to ensure that every independent individual is free from oppression by power and harm by prejudice.

Yet in the present era of identity politics running wild, this civilizational defense line that should protect the individual has been “instrumentalized” and “weaponized” by certain political forces, becoming a rope in the hands of privileged groups with which to kidnap constitutional rule of law and block moral accountability.

When a community experiences a large-scale crisis of public trust, when huge welfare funds are cashed out transnationally, or when a politician faces compliance reviews of campaign funds and personal résumé, as concentratedly embodied in the Omar case, legitimate judicial investigations and journalistic oversight are swiftly stigmatized as “racial discrimination,” “white supremacy,” or “religious prejudice.” This pressure of political correctness and moral blackmail creates a “fear of hitting the rat while watching the vase” mentality among law-enforcement and regulatory agencies. The result is that justice is paralyzed, public scrutiny is neutered, and a form of identity-based privilege emerges that places certain groups above the universal rule of law.

3. The “Red-Green Alliance” — Tactical Convergence Against Civilization

The “green” represented by extreme Muslim theocracy and clan loyalty, and the “red” represented by the Western radical far-left that has carried forward the characteristics of communism, are originally diametrically opposed ethical philosophies and social norms. Yet in the American political environment they have formed a profound tactical alliance.

The two sides have no consensus whatsoever, and are even fundamentally opposed, on “what kind of future to build”: the former pursues theocratic totalitarianism of the unity of church and state, while the latter advocates thorough secular deconstruction. But on the goal of “destroying the civilizational foundations of the West built on individual liberty, separation of church and state, constitutional democracy, and secular reason,” they have reached a deep strategic understanding.

The Western radical far-left naively believes it can enlist extreme theocratic forces to strike at the traditional order together and construct its imagined more equal and rights-based utopian system; yet this suicidal civilizational gamble will ultimately lead the far-left to be cruelly eroded in reverse by the theocratic forces of violence that it itself has sheltered.

4. Civilizational Backflow and Reverse Assimilation

In a healthy constitutional order, immigration should be a process in which newcomers actively integrate into the country and society they have chosen to join, undergo the formative influence of its civilization, and assimilate into its modern constitutional compact. While enjoying the freedom and prosperity afforded by modern civilization, individuals are also expected to recognize and respect the rule of law and secular norms.

However, when large-scale migration from societies lacking comparable civic and constitutional traditions exceeds a civilized country’s capacity to absorb and integrate newcomers in a timely manner, the assimilation mechanism can begin to break down. At the same time, Western mainstream elites, shaped by a long process of civilizational development, have developed a profound capacity for self-reflection. Yet when such reflection becomes excessive, it can turn into pathological self-reproach and even a sense of shame or inferiority toward their own civilization. Some then gravitate toward the radical left in an effort to shed a perceived burden of historical guilt. Together, these forces have accelerated the momentum of “reverse assimilation” from within the framework of liberal democracy itself.

Those who come to the United States seeking refuge in freedom and democracy, a stable and prosperous life, and greater protections of human rights and social welfare are no longer necessarily the ones expected to assimilate. Instead, some become conduits for importing less civilized social orders in the opposite direction, reshaping the character of the host nation, invoking human-rights protections to demand special privileges, and eroding the modern constitutional norms of a civilized society.

In order to preserve an illusory appearance of “inclusiveness,” mainstream society repeatedly retreats and revises its own domestic norms to accommodate anti-civilizational forces. Over time, this develops into a process in which an anti-civilizational current flows backward into modern civilization, forcing it into retreat.

II. Empirical Analysis — Facts and Harms of the Omar Case

Ilhan Omar is not an abstract political symbol. A series of facts interwoven in her political record — financial irregularities, flaws in the rule of law, ethical lapses, and crises of loyalty to the United States — precisely provide the most typical and complete empirical support for the foregoing core argument concerning the systemic erosion of America’s constitutional foundations and democratic system.

1. Structural Welfare Fraud, Underground Money-Laundering, and Political Protection Networks

【Factual Evidence】

The “Feeding Our Future” case that erupted in Minnesota was identified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) as the largest federal welfare fraud case during the pandemic nationwide, involving more than $250 million. To date, dozens of people have been charged and scores convicted, including principal defendant Aimée Bock and multiple core Somali-American members. Yet this case is only the tip of the iceberg of a more than decade-long systematic extraction of public funds in the area.

Long before this case, the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA) and local media (such as Fox 9 investigative reports) repeatedly issued audit reports and investigations confirming that the Somali-American community in Minnesota’s Fifth District has long engaged in structural “childcare assistance program” fraud and “Medicaid/personal care assistant (PCA) fraud.” Fraudsters established fake clinics, forged care records, and inflated the number of children, siphoning tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars in public tax revenue every year.

Investigations by the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and law-enforcement agencies further revealed that, apart from personal luxury consumption, large amounts of these extracted public funds were illegally transferred through informal financial remittance networks (the Hawala system) to Mogadishu in Somalia and the Eastleigh district of Nairobi, Kenya (known as “Little Mogadishu”), where they were used to purchase real estate and commercial assets. More seriously, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and counter-terrorism agencies have indicated that some funds flowed through underground channels to Al-Shabaab, a terrorist organization designated by the U.S. government.

In these welfare scandals, multiple convicted core defendants and heads of shell organizations were important leaders in the Somali-American community of Minnesota’s Fifth District, and for a long time were deeply embedded in Omar’s political power network as political donors, campaign organizers, or voter mobilizers.

【Harms and Deconstruction】

This multi-year, multi-domain systematic crime reveals a deeper constitutional and institutional crisis. Within the American national system, closed pre-modern tribal communities built on clan and religious ties have been formed, engaging in large-scale illegal extraction of public welfare and openly dividing the spoils on a wide scale. The “high-trust contract” and “humanitarian relief mechanisms” established by modern Western welfare states have encountered systematic institutional arbitrage and structural destruction.

From the logic of institutional operation, this case exposes the triple structural failure of Western liberal democratic systems — especially the United States — in preventing “internal deconstruction”:

First, the “reverse paralysis” of law-enforcement and regulatory mechanisms. As the representative of this district in the highest federal legislative body, Omar not only failed to fulfill the constitutional duty of a member of Congress to oversee administrative resources and law-enforcement compliance, but instead weaponized postmodern “identity politics.” By characterizing all legitimate judicial investigations and media oversight as “racism,” “xenophobia,” or “Islamophobia” directed against a minority group, she successfully erected a political barrier between public opinion and administrative law enforcement. This weaponization of identity labels has produced a powerful chilling effect on regulatory agencies and law-enforcement institutions, causing public enforcement to selectively fail before specific communities and, in substance, carving out “de facto legal immunity zones” inside free constitutionalism that are not subject to modern rule of law.

Second, representative democracy is yielding to tribalized political forces that operate outside the law. The core of modern constitutional democracy lies in a representative compact oriented toward the public good. Yet the Omar case reveals an extremely dangerous reality: the “privatization of public resources.”

Through political cover and preferential policy treatment, legislators may tolerate—or even participate in—the conversion of federal and state funds within their own electoral communities into spoils distributed through closed clan-based networks. In return, such insular communities use clan mobilization to provide those legislators with highly concentrated, effectively irreplaceable “safe vote banks.”

This mechanism undermines the universal principles of liberal democracy, degrading modern representative government into a protective umbrella for unlawful and criminal activity within particular ethnic or communal constituencies. Public tax revenues are thereby reduced to political nourishment for quasi-feudal vote banks and transnational money-laundering networks.

Third, legal universalism is being brutally dismantled. The cornerstone of liberal constitutionalism is the principle that “all are equal before the law.” When America’s national-security screening apparatus, public resources, and judicial authority collectively retreat in the face of certain politically correct shields, the law ceases to function as a universal standard binding all citizens equally and instead degenerates into a selective instrument of coercion applied primarily to the law-abiding public.

This reverse rule-of-law state — strict enforcement against ordinary citizens while turning a blind eye to specific political vote banks — fundamentally erodes the public’s faith in and reliance upon free constitutionalism and the authority of the rule of law.

(Read Part 2 here.)

8/18/2026