With the selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as Kamala Harris’ running mate, the United States now has the most radical, most extreme, most socialist ticket in this country’s history.

The selection shocked almost everybody, including those on the left. The slam-dunk veep choice was obviously Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a relative moderate who holds an approval rating north of 60% in his most crucial of swing states.

But instead of moving her party more to the center, Harris went with her soulmate in Walz.

Walz doesn’t deliver a swing state (Minnesota hasn’t gone red since 1972), and his record shows he’s basically Bernie Sanders or AOC with a “Fargo” accent. 

But right on cue, our activist media — after debasing itself beyond recognition by pushing outright lies about Joe Biden’s health and about Harris’ policies and record — have cheered the selection of Walz while comically attempting to portray him as a moderate.

“I grew up in a small town,” Walz said last month as he ramped up his bid to be named to the Democrats’ ticket.

“JD Vance is dead wrong about what makes small-town America tick,” the governor said of former President Donald Trump’s running mate. “Small towns don’t work because everyone is closed-minded and prejudiced. They work because people mind their own damn business. JD Vance seems to have a real problem minding his.” 

“Mind their own damn business”? Walz actually created a COVID snitch hotline at the height of the pandemic, encouraging neighbors to rat each other out for breaking his extreme protocols. The hotline endured through 2022.

That’s small-town values for you!

“When somebody tells who they are, they — believe them,” Walz said Tuesday as he introduced himself to America in a folksy yet substance-free announcement speech. “[Trump] said he would ban abortion across this country, and he’ll do it whether or not Congress is there or not.” 

That’s just 100% false. Trump supports states’ rights on the issue, after the Dobbs ruling correctly left decisions about abortion up to the voters, not to the federal government. 

“I worked across the aisle on veterans issues, on agriculture and on ways to grow rural economies,” Walz claimed Tuesday about his legislative record. “I learned the art of compromise without compromising my values.”

But as governor, he used a one-vote state Senate majority to force through a host of far-left policies.

And media spin aside, do these sound like moderate positions?

Walz supports sex changes for minors without parental permission.

He’s for open borders and illegal crossings — and even told CNN in 2019 that he wanted to invest in a “ladder company” to help illegal migrants get over Trump’s border wall.

He supports sanctuary cities.

And a carbon-free electrical grid by 2040 for Minnesota, which has some of the coldest weather in the country.   

He installed tampon machines in boys’ school bathrooms.

Supports free health care and free college for illegal immigrants and drivers’ licenses to boot.

Supported a mandatory mask mandate in Minnesota.   

And of course he presided over the state during its 2020 riots, which resulted in $500 million in damage in Minneapolis, including the torching of a police precinct.

Walz refused for days to quell the violence by bringing in the National Guard, then apologized when he finally pulled the trigger.

But now the Harris-Walz campaign wants the country to believe that this team is riding squarely down the center lane.

It’s the ultimate cheap fake marinated in spin and vibes and lies — all scripted and loaded into a Teleprompter.

This pair, which has not received a single primary vote in a national contest, can get away with this, at least for now — because many in the media simply want Trump defeated, no matter what their advocacy journalism does to their irreparably broken profession.

In the nearly three weeks since Harris became the Democratic nominee, she has yet to take one question on any matter of policy or substance. The same will undoubtedly be true for Walz.

In the end, only a series of presidential debates will truly provide the American people with the contrast and choice that they are facing, and what is by far the most consequential election of our lifetimes.

Whether those debates happen is another story, because Harris and Walz would love nothing more than to plead the Fifth all the way to November 5th.

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz may be the slight favorites right now. But if this ticket somehow wins, know this: You won’t even recognize this country anymore.

Joe Concha is the author of “Progressively Worse: Why Today’s Democrats Ain’t Your Daddy’s Donkeys” and a Fox News contributor.