Republicans Are Struggling to Paint Tim Walz as a Villain
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Republicans struggle to find an effective line of attack against Gov. Tim Walz, who was picked as Kamala Harris' running mate.

The GOP is scrambling to find a line of attack against Kamala Harris’s VP pick — and it’s not going well

Tim Walz has made his debut as Kamala Harris’ running mate, and Republicans are struggling to apply their standard villainization playbook to the Minnesota governor.

Walz has been making waves for weeks now as a good-natured, relatable politician with a particular aptitude for dressing down the Republican agenda in terms that any voter can understand — and the GOP hates it.

Republicans are scrambling to paint the governor-turned-VP candidate as a devilish Marxist hellbent on running the country into the ground — their usual stuff — while leveling a bunch of other really weird attacks. Here are some of their most pathetic attempts to turn voters against Walz.

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  • ceenote@lemmy.world
    1182·
    3 months ago

    I love the contrast this is painting between the far-left and far-right. On the one hand, you got fascists carrying tiki torches and chanting “jews will not replace us,” and on the other you got people saying “let’s make sure no children are starving.” And talking heads on Fox are super pissed about the latter.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1371·
      3 months ago

      To be clear neither Harris or Walz are “far left”…

      This is what actual moderates looked like.

      I’m happy to have them, but we lose if we call what they’re doing “far left”.

      We desperately need to bring the Overton Window back where it should be.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        402·
        3 months ago

        To be clear neither Harris or Walz are “far left”…

        Policies that were considered centrist compromise planks back in the 70s and 80s are now “Fringe Leftist Views” in the modern media, because so much of our information is owned and manufactured by right wing extremists.

        • teamevil@lemmy.world
          3·
          3 months ago

          Who love to scream that the liberal media isn’t right enough… the right is the absolute scum of the earth, they can shove their Fuck you I got mine attitude right up their ass

      • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
        29·
        3 months ago

        Oh, only the Wrong Wing calls them far left. Normal people know better. For one thing, they have a chance of being elected.

        • ceenote@lemmy.world
          14·
          3 months ago

          That’s what I’m saying. Right wing talking heads are priming people to start thinking “The far left doesn’t seem so bad.”

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          3 months ago

          Normal people know better.

          We’ll see. I suspect we’re going to get a full-court press against Walz, particularly after the DC media circuit was shilling so hard for Shapiro and didn’t get what they wanted.

          He’s going to get the same tarring and feathering as the Sanders campaign did, back in 2020, after Chris Matthews nearly had a heart attack on air when Bernie won Nevada.

      • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
        51·
        3 months ago

        As far as I understand, far left is anti-capitalism (communism), and/or anti-authority (anarchism), and/or maybe more recently radical ecologists who are ready to destroy property.