No, he's not really going to nab the VP nomination, but he'd certainly be a perfect bookend for Kampallawalla: no-minds think alike

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Powerline’s Scott Johnson:

WALZING WITH SOCIALISM

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has reportedly landed on Kamala Harris’s shortlist of possible running mates. We have to enjoy the thought while we can. By my calculation, the odds of his selection run from zero to zero.

… In the nine-second video clip below I take it that Walz comes to the defense of Harris. Whatever the context, this is Joe Isuzu selling socialism: “Don’t ever shy away from our progressive values. One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness. Just do the damn work.”

Walz’s injunction to “do the damn work” conveys his phony toughness. More to the point, it puts me in mind of the condemnation of slavery in Lincoln’s speech of July 10, 1858: “You will find that all the arguments in favor of king-craft were of this class; they always bestrode the necks of the people, not that they wanted to do it, but because the people were better off for being ridden. That is their argument, and this argument of [Stephen Douglas] is the same old serpent that says you work and I eat, you toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it.”