The Minnesota governor said that the path to tyranny “is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was testifying before Congress about his state’s handling of immigration when he learned Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security news conference Thursday.
The irony, he told the attendees of the Center for American Progress’ “Listening to Lead” event Friday, was in lawmakers grilling him and his colleagues, Govs. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y. and JB Pritzker, D-Ill., over the “incredible crime of treating people like human beings” as FBI agents tackled a sitting senator to the ground and handcuffed him in Los Angeles.
“I am not prone to hyperbole. I am prone to, like, popping off a little bit. I know that,” Walz said, prefacing his argument that Americans are living in a “dangerous” time. “I believed all along we were marching towards authoritarianism, and people were telling me in December, ‘You know, you’re overreacting.’ And I said, “The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.”
Walz and democrats aren’t leftists, they’re conservatives. Stop being an idealist, we have/had the option of conservatism or extremist conservatism. If you’re calling Walz “the left” then you’re doing the work of extremist propagandists for them, you fucking idiot. Have some god damned situational understanding and realize that the lesser of two evils is all we get in this country if we’re lucky, maybe take a minute and absorb the authoritarian genocidal regime that is in power instead of complaining about the lite version not being perfect leftists, you fucking twit. Use some rationalism.