Tim Walz doesn’t fit the profile of the stereotypical member of the Democratic Party.
Conservatives have tried to paint him as someone whose progressive politics challenge the culture of rural American life, but the truth seems far from that. Instead, like Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and some of the rural activists it produced, Walz is trying to uncouple small-town politics from the politics of fear and cultural isolation.
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Who is Tim Walz? Understanding the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party can help make sense of the VP candidate
Walz, who is set to debate JD Vance on Oct. 1, comes from a particular kind of progressive politics in the Midwest, united under the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.The Conversation