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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.
