Speaking as a Midwesterner, let me give you my opinion of Tim Walz.
Walz needs to be seen in the context of the rapid fall of Minnesota, and particularly what happened to the Twin Cities.
The Twin Cities of Minneapolis & St. Paul used to be one of the nicest, safest cities
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in the United States. The Mary Tyler Moore show was set there for good reason, it was friendly, safe place.
Minnesota used to be purple and quite centrist.
The local Democratic party is called the DFL - the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party.
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That was how Minnesota politics worked - the cities in the metro area allied with the unions (primarily in the mining Northeast) who allied with the farmers. They went against the Twin Cities suburbs and businessmen, it was always polite, and the state was even.
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The big shift happened with the mass influx of Somalis, along with the Dems trying to bring in blacks from other metro areas. The "nice" Repubs being controlled opposition, they of course did nothing to stop this process.
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The demographics changed sharply, crime rates soared, and the political situation rearranged itself.
Along with much of the rest of the country, enough of the suburbs switched to the Dems, that along with the newly black metro areas, the Dems began to get a decisive margin.
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Polite and nice stopped right there, the new DFL played strictly hardball politics
They also turned on their traditional constituencies of the farmers and the Iron Range union workers. As soon as they didn't need the votes, it was slap across the face, and knife in the back,
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they had no need for those traditional white Americans, or there traditional values.
Minnesota rapidly became the most radical of the Midwestern states, even more so than Chicago-dominated Illinois.
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Walz is a snake & a chameleon. Yes, he hunts, does the fishing opener & sometimes wears flannel shirts - all of which are used by the entirely Democratic Minnesota media to portray him as something he is not, a folksy politician with a common touch.
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Walz is despised in the outstate regions where the hunting & fishing are primarily done. Those areas have flipped from Blue to solid Red, as they try to protect themselves from the radical in the Twin Cities - to no avail.
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The real Walz? He's the face of the Great Replacement, that is followed by the Marxists crushing the opposition.
That's exactly why they want him as VP. He brings no election advantages. They're not worried about the election, but what comes after.
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