The Minnesota governor said that the path to tyranny āis littered with people telling you youāre overreactingā
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was testifying before Congress about his stateās handling of immigration when he learned Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security news conference Thursday.
The irony, he told the attendees of the Center for American Progressā āListening to Leadā event Friday, was in lawmakers grilling him and his colleagues, Govs. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y. and JB Pritzker, D-Ill., over the āincredible crime of treating people like human beingsā as FBI agents tackled a sitting senator to the ground and handcuffed him in Los Angeles.
āI am not prone to hyperbole. I am prone to, like, popping off a little bit. I know that,ā Walz said, prefacing his argument that Americans are living in a ādangerousā time. āI believed all along we were marching towards authoritarianism, and people were telling me in December, āYou know, youāre overreacting.ā And I said, āThe road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you youāre overreacting.ā
In the past, yes he has shown some spine for action but in todayās environment having him and Harris āinvisibleā until now projects a very weak position. The only Democrats that remained active and visible and āin your faceā were AOC and Bernie. Rest of them seem to have evaporated. Iād love to be proved wrong. So, how many public gatherings did he address and outlined strategy for applying pressure on current Federal administration? How many times did he stand up and mobilized others to stand up to present onslaught of lawlessness streaming from DC? I get it, heās Mi governor, but he also aimed for VP chair so one would expect him to act at āabove stateā level.
Nope, one would expect him to do the job he was elected to do. And he is.
We have way too many politicians already talking instead of acting. Working to alleviate real problems in Minnesota is way more effective, even on a nationwide level, than just talking.
But heās also talking!
Several, and more coming.