I didn’t realize just how much the chattering class dislikes middle America. I also didn’t realize how many of them would be trying to figure out where Minnesota is. Listening and reading most of the media deal with the fact that Kamala Harris pulled a fast one and named Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate, it feels like they are all looking for the floor after someone pulled the lever on a trap door.
Apparently the nattering nabobs were all in for Josh Shapiro to be the choice. According to one friend I have in one large newsroom they were already deep into preparing the pros and cons articles on the pick and hadn’t even gotten anything going on Tim Walz.
Who knows how the pick of Walz will help beyond the initital enthusiasm bounce. Certainly he will in some quarters. I happen to like the guy and imagine quite a few others do as well. No one knows how Shapiro or any of the other good choices would have helped or hurt either.
Face it, we’re very much still in unchartered waters with the MAGAt’s thinking beyond election day to how they can rig this election into the House of Representatives or the Supreme Court. Keep in mind that’s the real threat.
Perhaps, just perhaps, given the opponents and the hateful and vindictive agenda they are pushing, the Harris/Walz campaign might just succeed in not only winning enough votes to make it an argument in November and December, but changing the conversation in ways that can get us out of the slop our politics have become in this century.
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Life on the Wicked Stage: Act 3 