🧵 It's really stunning how many people who claimed Democrats should "reach out to rural people" really just meant "be Paul Ryan."

#TimWalz is everything these pundits 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 to want. What they 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 wanted was a conservative Democratic party.

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Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are returning Democrats to populism

As the Republican party has become increasingly radicalized, its refugees have made Democrats more conservative, and less successful electorally

^{Matthew Sheffield (Flux)}