Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will take the stage tonight at the Democratic National Convention for a keynote speech. With more eyes on him than he’ll ever have at any point in the campaign, I expect that he will actually deviate a bit from the standard script.
He’ll definitely still play up his Stepin Fetchit white Midwestern rural guy minstrel routine for a DNC audience eager to lap it up (Just the average rural Midwestern white guy who took 30 trips to Communist China and wants to trans your kids), but I do expect that he’ll probably refrain from too much direct white people bashing as he tries to reach swing voters with a message of faux moderation.
Walz is playing one of the only acceptable roles for a white politician in today’s Democrat party— as the friendly white face of a party whose base is increasingly steeped in anti-white radicalism. …
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