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Okay, let me get this straight, Trump wanting to do straight up Federalist society-endorsed genocide/ethnic cleansing, religious police state shit isn't a weakness, but Kamala Harris and Walz wanting free school lunch is? Fascinating how even the most mild progressive policies are somehow worse for candidates than plotting genocide is.

This is a silly Trump troupe. It's silly because it won't work.

Tim Walz is a veteran, gun-owning football coach from rural Minnesota. He doesn’t code as an extreme liberal. Take a look at him and you see your teacher.Your coach.

For a political attack to work, it has to be believable, and there is nothing believable about Tim Walz being a dangerous extremist

At the end of the day the elite class are fascists

The New York Times’s Nate Cohn, for example, says Walz “doesn’t help compensate for what figures to be [Kamala Harris’s] core weakness with swing voters: her … staking out progressive positions.”

Cohn goes on to assert that Walz

“unexpectedly became the veepstakes favorite for many progressives, who were often outright opposed to Mr. Shapiro or Mr. Kelly” and that “the fight was sufficiently intense for Mr. Walz’s selection to be seen as a material win for progressives.” As a result it “won’t assuage concerns that she’s too far to the left.”

This is utter rubbish. Who is concerned that Kamala is too far to the left? Cohn imagines that the typical voter is somewhere in the middle of the political spectrum. But there’s no longer a middle. When the Republican Party has adopted authoritarian fascism, what does it mean to be “too far to the left?”

Rekt. Good on RR for calling out Cohn's naked laundering of partisan bias into mainstream journalism. His article was mealy-mouthed establishment horseshit, as was his navel-gazing follow up.

Nice endorsement

What I think is funny is that people paint Harris as this progressive leftist when she has never been a standard-bearer for the progressive coalition. Yeah she's voted with Sanders a bunch but keep in mind she wasn't really in the US Senate all that long.

Some of us liked Bernie, some of us liked Warren, and some liked Buttigieg. I didn't hear one progressive talk about Harris.

And that's okay. My point is just to say that these claims she's a radical leftist and needed a moderate Dem to balance the ticket are just absurd.

Sounds like fantastic news to me.

When you're so far right, everything looks far left.

If wealth distribution were more equitable, there could have been enough of them to matter. Almost ironic, really.