The Minnesota governor said that the path to tyranny ā€œis littered with people telling you you’re overreactingā€

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was testifying before Congress about his state’s 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 Progress’ ā€œListening 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 ā€œincredible crime of treating people like human beingsā€ as FBI agents tackled a sitting senator to the ground and handcuffed him in Los Angeles.

ā€œI 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 ā€œdangerousā€ time. ā€œI believed all along we were marching towards authoritarianism, and people were telling me in December, ā€˜You know, you’re overreacting.’ And I said, ā€œThe road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.ā€

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    ā€œKamala isn’t vocal enough in supporting Palestineā€ was a big one.

    No. It was ā€œKamala actively supports Israelā€. If Democrats are going to continue trying to rewrite history to deny their role in genocide, they deserve Trump for a dozen terms

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      Perhaps Democrat leadership deserves something or other but the country and the world doesn’t deserve this.

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        The Democrat party supporters deserve it to, but indeed the rest of the country and world don’t. They didn’t deserve the Democrats either though.