Source: Washington Post
by Matt Bai
“You can see why Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz as her running mate, and why Democrats have fallen in love with him. The guy delivers a stemwinder in the tradition of the great plains populists, full of passion and humor and plainspoken defiance. But let me tell you something: Nobody delivers a speech that good unless he’s got a clear intellectual argument behind it and a burning conviction that he’s right. … We’ve seen Donald Trump meander and contradict his way through endless stretches …. You’ll soon see Kamala Harris capably work her way through an amalgamation of platitudes and applause lines. But in the contrasting rhetoric of Walz and Vance, in particular, we get a much sharper sense of what’s really being litigated in this election: two sharply contrasting views of what being America actually means.” (08/22/24)