Don’t Fall for Tim Walz’s Moderate ‘Minnesota Nice’ Act. He’s a Radical

I can sleep a little easier knowing the Democrats may have spiked the electoral football by picking a VP with a burnt-out city’s worth of baggage.

Vice-President Kamala Harris has chosen her running-mate for the 2024 election and while the media and Left are fawning, I think they’re in trouble. 

Democrats are swooning over Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s folksy, “Minnesota nice” demeanor. They praise his military track record, career as a social studies teacher, and his upset victory nearly 20 years ago in a rural Minnesota congressional district. Walz seems to be the architect of the “weird” attack on Republicans, something that the terminally online might see as effective, but the jury is still out on whether it’s working. 

But these aspects of Walz’s character are overshadowed by his horrific record as governor. He watched his state burn in the worst race riots since the Civil Rights era, he instituted government tyranny during COVID, he passed laws far out of step with Americans on a vast swathe of social issues, and has continued failed socialist policies that have already decimated the West Coast. 

Let’s start with Walz’s biggest failure: his leadership, or lack thereof, during the 2020 BLM Riots. Americans were glued to their televisions staring at towering infernos in Minneapolis while rioters caused millions of dollars worth of damage. As the flames spread, Walz dithered. 

From the New York Times:

Two days after Mr. Floyd’s death, with protests in Minneapolis turning increasingly violent, the city’s mayor, Jacob Frey, asked Mr. Walz to deploy the National Guard. Hours later, the city’s police chief submitted a written request for 600 troops. But it was not until the next afternoon that Mr. Walz signed an executive order allowing the Guard to assist cities.

A State Senate report following the riots placed the blame squarely at Walz’s feet. “Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and elected local leaders identified with the causes promoted by the demonstrators, causing them to lose sight of their responsibility to protect the public from criminal acts committed during the riots,” the report stated. “Governor Walz was not willing to do what was necessary to stop the rioting right away because he was having a philosophical debate about whether the use of force should be used to stop violence.” 

Walz’s inaction in confronting violent rioters burning a major American city to the ground was terrible. But when he took action, the results were just as bad. 

Under Walz’s leadership, the state saw near-California levels of government overreach when it came to COVID restrictions. Like many other blue states, Minnesota had an indoor mask mandate and enforced severe lockdowns. Those wanting to see loved ones, worship their god, or go for a walk were harassed by government goons. 

But Walz took things a step further and created a hotline for people to snitch on their neighbors for disobeying the governor’s tyrannical mandates. Maybe Minnesotans should have called the hotline to report Walz himself. 

As with his progressive colleague Gavin Newsom, Walz seemed to feel that rules are for the plebs and not the anointed elite. Walz attended the funeral of St. George Floyd, an event that even friendly local media noted “appears to have violated… coronavirus restrictions regarding funeral services and religious gatherings.”

Walz would later acknowledge he broke his own rules, but said it was to help with community “healing.” 

You know what doesn’t help with community healing? Sending COVID infected people into nursing homes and creating a massive black hole of death. An unapologetic Walz said it “was not a mistake” to send potentially infectious individuals into high-risk elderly care facilities.

But hey, if he didn’t kill them with his heartless COVID policies, maybe he could kill them with his mad dash to socialism. In a now infamous clip, Walz urged his fellow Democrats “not to shy away from their progressive values” and argued that “one person’s socialism is another person's neighborliness.” 

And what are those progressive values?

It’s making Minnesota a “LGBT sanctuary state” that actively encourages children to chemically castrate themselves. It’s pissing away a $17.6 billion surplus on progressive boondoggles and then raising taxes. It’s tanking the state’s education levels.

In a word: failure. 

That’s why I’m not so sure Democrats should be dusting their hands assuming the election is won and they’ll ride the Harris/Walz train to the White House. Walz is not nearly as clean a candidate as they think he is. Even progressive pollster Nate Silver seemed a bit confused by the pick, writing Pennsylvania governor “Shapiro was the higher-upside option that was probably worth the risk.” 

I know I was more concerned by the possibility of a VP Shapiro. But I can sleep a little easier knowing the Democrats may have spiked the football by picking a VP with a burnt-out city’s worth of baggage.

This isn’t to say Trump has this wrapped up either. Vance has some serious issues as I’ve previously detailed. But the odds are better with Walz in the number two slot than either Arizona senator Mark Kelly or Shapiro. 

A few more critical errors like that and Democrats may as well just send Trump the White House keys.