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Please don’t worry- this will not be the last time I write about my governor, Tim Walz, assuming that the news that Kamala Harris chose him as her running mate pan out. And all indications are that this is a done deal.
As Ed wrote, Tim Walz is a ridiculous choice for Harris, proving once again that her political instincts are about as bad as humanly possible. I was expecting Josh Shapiro, fully aware that the antisemitic wing of the Democrat Party would howl in rage. Picking him would have been a smart Sister Soulja moment and help Harris in the must-win state of Pennsylvania.
The choice was so glaringly obvious that, of course, she would avoid doing it, I suppose, because her political instincts were honed in San Francisco, where Walz would be seen as one of the few « good » people from flyover territory.
Walz has two virtues that probably stood out for Harris: first, he looks like a farmer, and second he has a populist flavor on first look. To a San Francisco liberal, he seems the ideal choice to get some votes in flyover country.
He isn’t. Walz is a radical, every bit as liberal as Kamala Harris, and he isn’t really good at hiding it. He has a thin skin, and his populist rhetoric is deployed to justify socialism, and he even admits it.
