Failed vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz over the weekend served up a schoolyard political strategy for his fellow Democrats – be “a little meaner” and stand up to “bully” President Donald Trump.
Walz was the Saturday keynote speaker at a Democratic Party state convention in Columbia, South Carolina, where he said it was time to turn the tables on the Republican president.
“Maybe it’s time for us to be a little meaner, a little bit more fierce, because we have to ferociously push back on this,” Walz told his audience in a speech posted on YouTube by Forbes and other outlets.
Walz was responding to accusations of being “mean” in his recent criticism of Trump administration officials, including billionaire Elon Musk, who headed DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) aimed at trimming wasteful spending.
Musk recently returned to running Tesla and his other companies which include, SpaceX, Starlink and the social media platform, X.
But it was Trump who had Walz’s attention at the convention, with the governor claiming Trump was a “bully,“ “a cruel man” and a “wannabe dictator.”
“The thing that bothers a teacher more than anything is to watch a bully,” Walz, a former schoolteacher, said. “And when it’s a child, you talk to them and you tell them why bullying is wrong. But when it’s an adult like Donald Trump, you bully the shit out of him back.”
Walz’s rhetoric echoes the relentless attack-Trump messaging that proved to do little to stop the New York developer’s 2024 juggernaut that resulted in presidential candidate winning every swing state.
