Jeffrey Blehar writes for National Review Online about the end of an undistinguished political career.
After months of fierce public rhetoric and an impressively focused demonstration of American power, President Trump finally toppled an incompetent, publicly prancing socialist long known to be working hand in glove with a coterie of dangerous anti-Western radicals to sabotage America: Tim Walz announced yesterday that he would not seek reelection as governor of Minnesota.
Indeed, it’s a great day for freedom. In a shocking turn of events, Governor Walz — who announced his campaign for reelection last September — is now suddenly reversing course and pulling out of the race. He is clear enough in his statement about why he changed his mind: the exposure of a massive criminal conspiracy, rooted deeply in the Twin Cities’ Somali community, to engage in widespread welfare and government-services fraud — which has been known about locally for years and tolerated because of vulgar Democratic Party ethno-politics, and whose bill may run taxpayers several billion dollars.
That’s not how the governor put it, of course. In Walz’s world, an “organized group of criminals” fleeced the state for a decade to the tune of billions, but now — even worse! — an “organized group of political actors” has noticed this. That dastardly Donald Trump “wants to make our state a colder, meaner place.” (As one well familiar with January in Minneapolis, I can assure you it is incredibly difficult to do this.)
And, for all of Tim’s plucky gumption, why, he’s just going to have to be the bigger man: “Every minute I spend defending my own political interests would be a minute I can’t spend defending the people of Minnesota against the criminals who prey on our generosity.” So he’s hanging up his spurs to pass his seat in a reliably blue state to a fellow Democrat — maybe Amy Klobuchar will get into the race instead. (My proposal: Governor Omar Fateh, just to make it perfectly clear to everyone who’s really the captain now in Minnesota.)
