It is hard to walk across South Minneapolis, which I recently visited for work, and not see what weak leadership does to a once beautiful state. Signs of the 2020 George Floyd riots are still there: shops that are now permanently closed due to the riots and Covid, the fronts taken over by junkies. Madly erected wooden sculptures are next to where Floyd was killed, alongside worse art abundant with abolition, “ACAB,” and Palestinian liberation motifs. The culture shock for someone from outside the state is palpable.
The Twin Cities are beautiful, but they are blue islands in a state ready to turn red. Minnesota is Trump country, and Donald Trump perhaps instinctively understands that more than anyone.
Governor Tim Walz, part of the posse that ousted President Joe Biden from the Democratic ticket, has been one of the first governors to start campaigning for Harris. Understably so, as after Pennsylvania’s Governor Josh Shapiro—darling of the Wall St donor base, and considered a borderline war criminal among the progressives for his support of Israel and volunteering for IDF—Tim Walz is the most important potential vice-presidential pick.
It’s important to consider Walz’s legacy. Let me quote from a source close to the left, MSNBC.
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