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.”
Yeah, the cowardly Minnesota leadership cancelled the No Kings protests, and their constituents said “Fuck That,” and showed up anyway. 80,000 angry Minnesota Americans chose to publicly protest, knowing that a vicious murderer who was targeting them was on the loose, while their elected representatives chose to cower behind closed doors.
It’s long past time for Democratic politicians to match the energy, anger, militancy, and COURAGE of their voters. We elected them to represent and fight for US against the MAGA Nazis, and now we expect them to DO THEIR JOBS!
If they won’t, we’ll elect people who will.