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.
Everyone is blaming politicians as if it wasn’t the fucking voters that decided to elect a pseudo-fascist into power.
The Democrats wanted to stop the pseudo-fascist. You elected them. It’s not their fault, you elected, now own it. Stand to your choice and don’t try others for your terrible choice.
Everyone blaming voters seems to forget that outcomes are the goal here. You can say what voters ‘ought’ do until you’re blue in the face. But the reality is that if we want the outcome of defeating fascism, we have been shown on multiple occasions that simply not being a rapist traitor isn’t enough. When the answer to cries from the voter base is, ‘these are your options so shut up’, they don’t leave their couch.
So do you want to scold or do you want outcomes? Because scolding has repeatedly not worked to stop fascism.