Governor Tim Walz
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241 appearances
14 recordings
8 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 19 Apr
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We weren't talking about other things that mattered to people. And I went down that line. trying to do, I think, morally the right thing. It turns out I'm, how much have you heard about Springfield, Ohio, by the way, since that election? What Donald Trump has mastered is he floods the zone to the point where you don't get to make your point.
And it doesn't matter if it was eating dogs and cats because it was immigration and people were uncomfortable with immigration. And so I would do that differently.
Yeah, I think they should have been out there telling us that the inflation was real and this hurt. I think, you know, if I in retrospect, which is 2020 hindsight type of thing, I think there should have been talk about sending, especially in the summer of 23, potentially sending, you know, stimulus checks to folks to try and counter some of that and making it clear that we were fighting for them.
Look, I think you are always going against this idea of.
change they wanted it was a change election it's happened globally um we needed to be the change and with that statement more than anything was a lot of great work was done by the administration we have we do have the best economy but that doesn't matter on a micro scale to someone if they can't afford their rent payment um but in fairness to the vice president had it been me in that moment i might have made that same thing might have said and i think that's we as democrats better do some soul searching about that why would we do that it's not like we're blindly loyal like
the Trump folks are, but it's okay to criticize people you like. In fact, that's what you need. You got to surround yourself with people who aren't yes people to tell you that you didn't do a very good job on this or you should change this. We didn't do that. We didn't do it.
Well, I will say this. The DNC was a good party on that. I thought it would do something better than them. But let's, yes, yes. And I'm going to say, can this be our bar? Let's have our 2028 candidate have hair.
Took yourself out of the race. I'm self-reflective on this. Look, I don't want to downplay that. We just need to, whoever it is, needs to win, and we need to understand that. But I don't deny this, this sense of the future. Now, with that logic or whatever, look what the Republicans did. I said this. We don't have term limits in Minnesota, and you do a four-year term. I've done two of those.
I could finish my term now and do four more terms as governor and be younger than Donald Trump. So this idea that, well, the Republicans are young and fresh or whatever, that's not totally true either. But I think, I do think they engage people more. They're more willing to give them that especially. And I think it feels like there's a bottleneck in elected office where it's, it's,
The choice shouldn't be between running your parents for the Senate or putting them into a home. That should not be the choice. And we get a little bit, or for governor, fair enough. No hair, I get it.
I think we have not done a good job of explaining it. And look, we... I don't know, you fire, you have a whole bunch of top military officers, only two you fire are a woman and a black man. I think we need to name that when it happens, just to be clear, need to name it.
But we also need to tell the average person who I do not believe is racist, but doesn't understand what we're saying, and they have been conditioned by the other side that we are somehow passing over well-qualified individuals white males to put these people in there. I think we as Democrats have a great example to rebut that. Just look at the cabinet. Just look at this current cabinet.
If that's the best and brightest coming from the other side, seriously, that we should make that case about accountability. And so, yes, and look, I don't deny this. Do I think we're losing elections and folks in the middle doing this? Yeah, I think it's costing votes. But I think, and I say this as a teacher, I always said this, if I would teach a lesson and then I would give a quiz on it.
And half the class would fail it. I didn't assume that half wasn't very smart. What I assumed is is the method that I used to teach hit part of the class but didn't hit another because of their learning styles or whatever it might be. So I want them to learn this geography concept.
I should teach it in three or four or five different ways to make sure I'm as broad as possible that they got the concept on that. I think we teach DEI one way on this instead of being more strategic about how we talk about it, because I don't believe my neighbors think it's a horrible thing to make sure everybody's got a shot to be able to succeed, and that helps all of us.
So, yeah, I think we're not doing a good job with that. I think it is electorally... hurting us, but more importantly, it's hurting real people in their real lives and it's throwing up those systemic barriers that have held us back for generations that I think we're getting at.
Yeah, no, it's tough. I don't want to whiz past the graveyard, but, you know... it's not a cliche. Every generation has to renew the democracy. And again, I will admit it. I would like to live in precedented times. I'm sick of living in unprecedented times. Oh, no governors. I'm sick of that. I want normalcy. I don't want to see these people. But there's also a
an opportunity and a privilege for us to reimagine. And when I got asked the other day, they said, who's the leader of the Democratic Party? I'm like, hell, if I know, I think it's the people who are out there. I think it's the working class, because we are not cultish.
It's pretty clear if you ask a Republican who's the leader of the Republican Party, because they can't say it fast enough, put on their red hat and dance to the tune. We're not going to dance to that tune, but we have a set of shared values. And so I am optimistic. I do believe, and look, I do believe that arc of the moral universe bends. but I don't think it bends by itself.
I think you gotta reach up and pull it some to get there. This is a bit of a personal question. Do you miss wearing your glasses? I ran this. I'm freakishly fast still for an old man. I run 22 miles a week. I can still run 830 miles pretty casually. So I went running this morning. I put in my contacts. And I think it does make me look less old that I have to get criticized online. My vanity.
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