You Can't Cancel Tim Walz's Radicalism With Camo Hats or Ice Fishing
Tim Graham
Vice President Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her Democratic running mate, offering a balance of different races and genders -- if you're one of those traditionalists who still believes in those binaries. But their ideology is a pretty strong match. Walz is especially "progressive" on abortion on demand, on pushing "gender-affirming care" for kids and on fawning over illegal immigrants with taxpayer-funded benefits like free college tuition.
They'll claim Walz represents "Midwestern values," and then you see he supported tampon machines in male bathrooms in public schools, and he couldn't oppose the idea that pedophilia can be blurred into a list of sexual orientations.
So one of the most bizarre left-wing media spins is the claim that Walz the Libertine Leftist can still appeal to rural conservative voters -- even if there's little evidence he did that in his last governor's race in 2022.
On CBS, Gayle King gushed, "There's something appealing about a guy ... [who] is as comfortable talking in a T-shirt and a baseball cap as he is talking in a suit, as he is talking in a tuxedo." King nudged Robert Costa for more: Walz seems like an amiable fellow, "he can crack a joke, talks about the hot dish up in Minnesota, that famous casserole, can talk about fishing."
On MSNBC, Molly Jong-Fast tried to counter Walz's radicalism with Midwestern practices: "He ice fishes. He's a hunter. He does butter carving. ... He's a rural person." This tends to clash with Walz's biography, teaching high school in Mankato, Minnesota. "In 1999, Walz agreed to be the faculty advisor of Mankato West High School's first gay-straight alliance."
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