Former vice-presidential candidate claims pair should have held more in-person events around the US

Summary

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has criticized the Harris-Walz 2024 presidential campaign for playing it too “safe,” saying they should have held more in-person events and town halls.

In a Politico interview, Walz—known for labeling Trump and Vance as “weird”—blamed their cautious approach partly on the abbreviated 107-day campaign timeline after Harris became the nominee in August.

Using football terminology, he said Democrats were in a “prevent defense” when “we never had anything to lose, because I don’t think we were ever ahead.”

While acknowledging his share of responsibility for the loss, Walz is returning to the national spotlight and didn’t rule out a 2028 presidential run, saying, “I’m not saying no.”

  • NoneOfUrBusiness
    1•18 hours ago

    One of the characteristics of populism is being anti-establishment, even against the established academic and technocratic paradigm.

    Yeah that’s a good thing, because as you said in your other reply the established academic and technocratic paradigm is fucking stupid. You should want them to be against the established paradigm if you want anything to change.

    • @TheDemonBuer
      2•17 hours ago

      You should want them to be against the established paradigm if you want anything to change.

      But simply being against the established paradigm isn’t enough to change things. You need to build a new paradigm, and that takes time, and it can’t be accomplished by just ignoring the existing experts and technocrats.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
        4•17 hours ago

        You need to build a new paradigm,

        No need for that; there’s already a perfectly fine paradigm that can be used. It’s the leftist-progressive economic policy exemplified by FDR’s New Deal.

        • @btaf45
          2•16 hours ago

          It’s the leftist-progressive economic policy exemplified by FDR’s New Deal.

          Exactly. It’s not like we don’t already have a road map and historical examples of how to get it right.

        • @TheDemonBuer
          0•17 hours ago

          You’d have to ask the experts why they abandoned that paradigm in the 1970s, in favor of neoliberalism.

          But ultimately I think you and I agree that the moderates shouldn’t be so adverse to left populism.

      • @Triasha
        1•13 hours ago

        You can be against the established paradigm when you know what you want and how to get there.

        We want to take the money from the few, and give it to the many.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
        1•14 hours ago

        Its insane to be against science and intelligence and knowledge.

        The “science” behind neoliberalism is supply-side economics, which I hope I don’t need to say doesn’t work.