Summary

Former vice presidential nominee Tim Walz criticized Trump for economic chaos while taking personal responsibility for the situation during an MSNBC interview.

“We wouldn’t be in this mess if we’d have won the election — and we didn’t,” Walz told Chris Hayes. He called Trump the “worst possible business executive” and praised the Wall Street Journal’s editorial criticizing Trump’s tariff war.

Walz emphasized Democrats must offer something better, not just criticize Trump. Recently, he acknowledged a leadership void in the Democratic Party and admitted spending too much time combatting Trump’s false claims about immigrants.

    • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 month ago

      You don’t find Republican policies that dehumanize immigrants, attack women’s rights, and demonize LGBT rights weird? To put it as nicely as possible, fascist policies are weird

        • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
          31·
          1 month ago

          I’m not, I’m pointing out that even that miniscule amount of pushback during the campaign was well received. You seem to be the one opposed to even that

          The Democrats are a controlled opposition, genuine opposition must come from grassroots organization and solidarity. Peaceful opposition backed by militant support is preferred, but I’m completely on board with revolution as well discussed by Franz Fanon

            • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 month ago

              Sure, I base weird off of whether people empathize and respect others so I don’t consider LGBT+ weird. I find someone who wants to take rights weird, not people just being themselves

                • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  1 month ago

                  Sure, I don’t subscribe to the conservative framing of societal standards and I won’t normalize their framing

                  I call them fascist, personally, but the Democratic Party is too scared too.

                • tischbier@feddit.orgEnglish
                  2·
                  1 month ago

                  There’s different types of weird. If this type of weird doesn’t apply to you, then you shouldn’t be offended by it.

                  I’m extremely weird and I wasn’t offended by it. Because it’s not referring to me.

                  Sometimes we have to set aside our ego and strike where our opponent is weakest. They are weakest when they feel like they are not being included in the “in group.” Weird cuts quickly to that weakness. It has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.

                  If you are hurt by this, then maybe you should work on your introspection and figure out why it bothers you so much. It almost certainly wasn’t meant in the way you’ve taken it. I hope you find growth here.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      1 month ago

      You were never going to vote for Dems anyways, you keep saying alienation but you have not provided any proof. The fact that your being flustered means it’s actually working against Republicans, yes we know you are one.