It’s been over a month since the presidential election, but Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) still doesn’t get it. The former Democratic vice presidential candidate can’t comprehend why millions of people in the country chose to vote for (now president-elect) Donald Trump and (now vice president-elect) Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) over Vice President Kamala Harris and himself. Over a month later, Walz is still stunned he lost, saying he thought the country was ready for their “positive” message in an interview that aired Sunday on an ABC affiliate in St. Paul, Minnesota.
“It felt like at the rallies, at the things I was going to, the shops I was going in, that the momentum was going our way, and it obviously wasn’t,” Walz told KSTP-TV’s Tom Hauser. “So, yeah, I was a little surprised. I really, I thought we had a positive message, and I thought the country was ready for that.”
The sheer arrogance and smugness to make such a statement. As if half of the country are uncivilized heathens, waiting for an enlightened politician such as Walz to show them the way.
Neither Walz nor his running mate provided positive messages on the campaign trail, and there certainly wasn’t any esoteric or innovative messaging for which the country needed to be ready. Their idea of unity was predicated on forcing everyone to agree with their ideals and values. At the core of their platform was hatred and division. Their concept of positivity is vilifying their political opponents. They feared diversity of thoughts, were against ideological equity, and opposed the inclusion of differing political ideas.
Positive message? Delusional is more like it.
Walz and Harris sought to divide the country. Their platform was predicated on hatred. Their mantra of “we’re not going back” was based on an idea of regression to an insufferable time in the nation’s history. Walz constantly spoke of “losing rights.” Fearmongering and scare tactics were core tenets of their campaign. After all, this was the same campaign that hosted a rally the night before the election, in which billionaire Oprah Winfrey frantically and hysterically fearmongered, saying if Harris and Walz were not elected, they might not ever “have the opportunity to ever cast a ballot again.”
This is positive? This is the kind of rhetoric for which the country was not ready?
The Harris-Walz campaign spent its time calling its political opponents racists, sexists, fascists, and homophobes, who were going to bring the country backward. Its “positive message” included regularly categorizing the killing of innocent children in the womb as a fundamental right and touting policies that threatened and endangered females, such as the support for boys competing as girls in female scholastic athletics.
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The campaign’s concept of joy involved insulting anyone who dared to differ in opinion. When it lost, it didn’t accept responsibility. It cast others as morally inferior when its ideas, principles, and messages were soundly rejected because that is the only possible explanation for why anyone would disagree with Harris and Walz. It is this smugness and holier-than-thou attitude that were the primary reason for the pair’s defeat.
Walz called it a positive message, but in reality, it was never that. His message was one of condescension and arrogance. Walz thought he was a hero, saving the country from villainous Neanderthals who were backward in their thinking. It is clear from the interview that Walz still doesn’t get it. It is unlikely he ever will.