Minnesota’s Democratic governor, Tim Walz, is now something of an overnight celebrity. Walz made a name for himself locally as a plainspoken, commonsense politician. This week, his star has risen as he’s taken to cable news to make the case that the GOP and former president Donald Trump are more than just “dangers to democracy,” “radicals,” or “felons.” Far worse than any of that, Walz has charged the modern GOP as being just plain weird. And now, seemingly overnight, Democratic politicians and their surrogates have made “weird” their primary weapon in their war against modern conservatism. It’s the politics of the junior high cafeteria gone viral.
It’s true that Trump is weird. He’s a fabulously wealthy aging New York playboy with a bizarre comb-over and a penchant for juvenile put-downs and social media missives about Barney Frank’s nipples and “shitty” Coca-Cola products. His speeches have always been rambling, confusing, and deeply strange. He seemed nearly moved to tears upon watching Hulk Hogan rip open his shirt at the Republican National Convention and couldn’t stop himself from blowing kisses at the aging wrestler.
But will the charge that Trump, and his running mate, J. D. Vance, are “weird” really stick? It might, that is, if the party making that case could credibly be seen as the party of normalcy. Yet, liberals might want to be careful about calling their opponents “weird” lest their own glass house get shattered.
The big story out of the grassroots liberal world this week is that several groups…
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Auteur: Dustin Guastella
