Old and busted: Grassroots! New hotness: Gastro-Turf!

Back in my day, sonny, the cults only accosted people in the airports. Now Tim Walz wants supporters of Kamala Harris to have "hard conversations" with total strangers in the produce aisle as a strategy to recruit them into Cackleology. 

Given that grocery prices have increased 22% during Harris' term as Vice President, Walz may have picked about the poorest setting for this suggestion (via Twitchy):

Tim Walz tells voters to approach strangers at the grocery store and have "hard conversation[s]" about the need to vote for the Harris campaign
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— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 14, 2024

Give Walz some credit. At least he's not setting up a hotline for Harris supporters to start snitching on friends and family planning to vote for Donald Trump. Yet, anyway. 

And say ... whatever happened to "mind your own damn business," anyway? Is accosting strangers in the grocery aisles and lecturing them on your politics another form of Walz' "neighborliness"? 

Needless to say, this will not end well if these activists actually take Walz' advice, especially in grocery stores. That's where Americans feel the pain and failures of Bidenomics most acutely, and where they are already reminded of the need for a change from the status quo that produced it (in the produce aisle, even!).

As I often point out, the wisdom of James Carville's 1992 mantra It's the economy, stupid rests on the fact that voters live in the economy every single day. They may not live near the border, pay attention to foreign policy, and find budget and debt matters nearly inexplicable. However, voters buy groceries, gas, utilities, and pay rent or mortgages every damn day. They know full well how the economy is going, and whose policies produced the status quo of three years of inflation and wage erosion. 

You can try to gaslight voters on a lot of issues, but not the economy. They may not be experts in macroeconomics, but they can read a receipt from the supermarket.

Besides which, what argument could these activists provide about how Harris will do better? That she was born in a middle-class family? That's all she ever says when confronted about 40-year record rates of inflation during the Biden-Harris administration. (Well, that and a lot of cackling.) Even Harris can't come up with any specific plans to bring prices back down:

TAFF: What are 1 or 2 specifics for bringing down prices?

KAMALA: Grew up middle-class around hard working people and construction workers, lawns, dignity, character, dreams, “opportunity economy”.

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Kamala, the question was, “How will you bring down prices?”. pic.twitter.com/nZOl9xH4Cs

— christian (@cbuckege18) September 14, 2024

What part of that will convince people thumping melons in the produce aisle?

Writ larger, of course, this is a call to intimidate voters and turn even the most quotidian of tasks -- marketing -- into a struggle session for the Left. It's of a piece with restaurant takeovers for The Cause, with campus radicals seizing grounds and buildings, right up to claiming "autonomous zones" in metropolitan areas under the control of radical Leftists. That's the world that Tim Walz and Kamala Harris want to create, expand, and nurture. 

Today, Berries & Melons -- tomorrow, The World (Aisle)!