Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz skewered the GOP’s notion of populism on MSNBC Thursday.
“The golden rule that makes small towns work, so we’re not at each other’s throats all the time,” the Democrat explained, is “mind your own damn business.”
“I don’t need him to tell me about my family,” Walz told host Jen Psaki, referring to Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s many extreme anti-abortion positions. “I don’t need him telling me about my wife’s health care and her reproductive rights. I don’t need him telling my children what books they can read.”
I think rural America is, they are angry. They were gutted. But Joe Biden’s policies, and now soon-to-be President Harris, bringing back manufacturing jobs, bringing back dignity. Investing in infrastructure. How are you going to build a water treatment plant in a town of 400, if you don’t have a collective effort at it?
So I have to tell you, they scream socialism. We just build roads, and we build schools, and we build prosperity into this. Their whole plan is to go backwards, to give tax cuts to the wealthy. And look, so surprising, you know, the super successful Donald Trump who inherited $400 million dollars and then proceeded to fail at everything. In middle America, you earn it. But you know what? You’re not on your own. Neighbors help neighbors.
This one bothers me. I heard you talking about punching back at the bullies. They see people less fortunate as scapegoats and, you know, punch lines for their jokes. We see them as neighbors.
And I said—with my mom? My dad dies when my little brother’s young—we’re teenagers. We get Social Security survivor benefits. I’m all for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. We didn’t have any boots. Social Security was the boots. And we pulled ourselves up and we paid that back. And I think JD Vance gets none of that. You know, it’s the, ‘Aw shucks, I’m from here’ or whatever. So, my hillbilly cousins did not go to Yale. But I’ll tell you what they did: They contributed to our community, and they’re proud of it.
Waltz has been doing a bang-up job explaining how Democratic policies benefit working Americans while slamming the GOP’s obsession with bullying LGBTQ+ children and other marginalized groups while promising tax breaks to the wealthiest people.
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