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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.

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      17 hours 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

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        11 hours ago

        I’m not opposed to pushback.

        I’m opposed to pushback that also pushes out queers and anyone that doesn’t match the corporate/centrist definition of normal.

        Pushback against the nazis, not against “weird”.

        Be weird and proud.

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          10 hours 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

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            6 hours ago

            Weird is a compliment. It means you are willing to be yourself in the face of broken societal standards.

            Someone who wants to take the rights of others isn’t weird. The word you’re looking for is “evil” or “selfish” or “authoritarian”.

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              2 hours 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.