Tim Walz: The perfect leftist emblem

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August 8, 2024
Tim Walz: The perfect leftist emblem
By Earick Ward

With the Dems’ selection of Tim Walz for V.P., the teams are set going into the general election for president: Donald Trump and J.D. Vance for the Republicans against Kamala Harris and Tim Walz for the Democrats (assuming the Harris/Walz ticket doesn’t get derailed at the convention).

At first glance, the selection of Tim Walz is a relief.  Kamala Harris could have selected Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro, but as Van Jones suggested on CNN, “anti-Jewish bigots” in the Democrat party sank Shapiro’s V.P. bid.  Shapiro would have almost certainly delivered Pennsylvania, with 19 electoral votes, which would have made the path to victory harder for Trump/Vance.

Tim Walz is the gift that keeps on giving.  If there were a worse candidate than Kamala Harris, Tim Walz is it.

Take his stolen valor, his ties to China, his signed bill placing tampons in boys bathrooms, his signed bill allowing state custody for transgender hormones and genital mutilation, his signed bill granting driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, and his signing of a late-term abortion bill that is possibly the most radical in the nation.

But of all Walz’s extreme left background, his allowing (read: promoting) the burning down of Minneapolis and other Minnesota cities during the 2020 Democrat-inspired summer of rage is, in my opinion, the most egregious.  People died.  Businesses were looted and set ablaze (in mostly black neighborhoods).

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Harris and Walz are the Black Lives Matter ticket
By Zachary Faria
Aug. 7, 2024

Many thought COVID-19 and its lockdowns would be what changed the direction of politics in the United States. While there have been some political shifts, the lockdown reckoning pales in comparison to the shifts brought on by the Black Lives Matter riots, which included total control over the direction of the Democratic Party.

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, showcased this perfectly. Harris chose Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) to be her running mate, selecting him over the more sensible political choice, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA). It has turned Harris’s ticket into a referendum on the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 in the general election but, on the Democratic side, the referendum has now reached its conclusion.

Walz was governor when Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd, kicking off Black Lives Matter riots across the country. The riots were the worst in Minneapolis, and yet Walz was asleep at the wheel. He waited more than a day after Minneapolis Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey and the city’s police chief requested help from the National Guard with the riots before signing off on it. A swift and thorough crackdown on violent riots could have nipped the problem in the bud, but Walz was incapable of providing that level of leadership.

Or perhaps he was unwilling. As Minneapolis burned, Walz waxed poetic about how symbolic it was.  ...

Harris and Walz’s moments on the national stage have been defined by Black Lives Matter and its 2020 riots. The Black Lives Matter vice grip on the Democratic Party was solidified by the devout embrace of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, and Harris allowed the activist class behind Black Lives Matter to dictate her running mate decision. Democrats across the country embraced soft-on-crime positions as a form of “equity” and supported defunding police departments, including both Harris and Walz. The lawlessness, the racism, and the antisemitism all come from the same place.  ...

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I swear, sometimes I wonder if either of them has a soul.