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Is America Ready for More Than One Kind of Weird?

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DATE POSTED:August 21, 2024
Keeping Austin Weird in the Tim Walz EraDuring the early days of Kamala Harris’s candidacy for president of the United States, Tim Walz—then the governor of Minnesota and not yet her running mate—dropped a casual, offhand remark that had a sudden and dramatic impact on the American political landscape. You probably heard it: during a brief appearance on the MSNBC’s Morning Joe, when discussing Donald Trump and his VP selection, JD Vance, Walz declared that “these guys are just weird.” A full suite of politicians, activists, columnists, podcasters, pundits, and more reacted as though a spell had been broken. After decades of allowing Republicans to own the lane of representing the mainstream, middle America that’s into tractor pulls and Applebee’s, Walz’s five-word manifesto gave Democrats a rallying cry they could use to…

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