Manifest Density

The Pillow Man Got Pillowed: Minnesota GOP Swamps the Outsider Again

By Buck Buckhorn · August 12, 2026
Opinion

Funny how the party that spends all day yelling about the swamp can’t stop acting like the swamp.

Minnesota, The state where the Republican primary for governor took place.Steve Shook from Moscow, Idaho, USA (CC BY 2.0) via Wikimedia Commons
Minnesota, The state where the Republican primary for governor took place.

Mike Lindell just lost the Minnesota Republican primary for governor, and if you’re looking for the moral of the story, here it is: the establishment always gets its way