During the early days of Kamala Harris’s candidacy for president of the United States, Tim Walz—then the governor of Minnesota, and not yet her running mate—dropped a casual, offhand remark that had a sudden and dramatic impact on the American political landscape. You probably heard it: During a brief appearance on the MSNBC’s Morning Joe, when discussing Donald Trump and his VP selection JD Vance, Walz declared that “these guys are just weird.” A full suite of politicians, activists, columnists, podcasters, pundits, and more reacted as though a spell had been broken. After decades of allowing Republicans to own the lane of representing the mainstream, middle America that’s into tractor pulls and Applebee’s, Walz’s five-word manifesto gave Democrats a rallying cry they could use to…
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