Walz is 'a PSA for white people'

Anand Giridharadas joined Wednesday's episode of “Morning Joe” to explain why he thinks Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate pick will be a perfect example of what an older white man should be.

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Speaking at Tuesday night's Harris rally in Pennsylvania, Giridharadas explained why he thinks Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will be the best running mate for this campaign.

“I think it is a very significant moment. I think John Heilemann is right, that many of us in the journalistic or pundit class are perhaps a little slow to embrace what this is because we are used to an older paradigm. I think many of us were trained in a pre-authoritarian republican moment, a pre-fascist republican playbook. Going up against people like Mitt Romney and so the strategies around swing states and that kind of thing came out of those experiences. We are now at a time when the right wing of this country is an authoritarian movement, an increasingly fascist movement”, he denounced.

“And part of what you see in authoritarian movements around the world is that they make people feel things, right? They excite people. Their blood rises. And the Democrats have been running against authoritarianism for too long with mistrust, with politics, with material things, with bridges and roads, all very worthy things, but without competing at the level of getting the blood up, making people feel,” he said. continue Giridharadas.

“This is a campaign that understands the importance of vibrations. The vibes may sound dismissive or like something from Gen Z, but it's really about competing against authoritarianism when it's aimed very directly at the voters' limbic system and it's actually Democrats joining the contests for the heart of people, not just the brain. And I think when you talk about a figure like Coach Walz, obviously there were a lot of good notes around the framework of freedom, patriotism, things like that. The greatest significance of this man is that he is an older white man at a time when the far right is trying to convince men that the future is treacherous for them, trying to convince men that the future is treacherous for them, and here's a big white man, a coach, a soldier who's very hard to fire.”

Apparently, white people have a lot to learn from someone like Walz.

“There's joy in the future. There's joy in your boss being a black woman. There's joy in what's to come, and I think she's going to teach a lot of people in addition to her role in the election and in the White House. She's going to teach a lot of people through their role in the culture that they will be fine and that there is joy on the other side of achieving a multiracial democracy in this country.”

In a follow-up post to XGiridharadas referred to Walz as a “PSA for white people, old people, men, rural dwellers and others: You don't have to fear the future.”

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