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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.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    The voters deserve a lot of blame here.

    You can lead a horse to water…

    Any ADULT can easily see that politicians are going to be imperfect, and no single candidate is going to align 100% with your stance. Demanding that they do, or else you’ll vote for literally the worst possible option, or sit out, or vote a “protest” vote, all so that someone, somewhere will “learn” something is just fucking childish and stupid. And this will be continue to be true no matter how many times the Tone Police show up to admonish people about blaming voters. Sorry, not sorry: I blame the voters.

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      7 days ago

      I agree, I’m also happy that people like Walz seem to want to give people a better option, making a protest vote even less appealing.

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      I blame the voters.

      It means you never have to listen or change in any way, so of course you do.

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        7 days ago

        LOL, I am a voter. Are you under the impression that I have any direct influence over the Democratic Party? 🤣

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          LOL, I am a voter. Are you under the impression that I have any direct influence over the Democratic Party?

          According to your comment, voters are to blame, not the infallible holy party. So good work electing trump. It’s all your fault.

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      Any ADULT can easily see that politicians are going to be imperfect

      The best I can do is fall for blatant Russian propaganda and then get mad when someone calls me out on it.