Tim Walz has an older brother who is MAGA, and “100 percent opposed” to his younger brother’s ideology, and is publicly musing about endorsing Donald Trump.
Which makes Tim Walz … like every Democrat with MAGA relatives that I know.
“I’ve thought long and hard about doing something like that,” Jeff Walz wrote on Facebook, we learned from reporting from the Rupert Murdoch-owned The New York Post, based on social-media posts from the hyperbolic far-right extremist Laura Loomer.
“I’m torn between doing something like that and just keeping my family out of it,” Jeff Walz wrote. “The stories I could tell. Not the type of character you want making decisions about your future.”
More to this story: Jeff Walz, who was a donor to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and Tim Walz have not spoken for eight years.
And then, there’s how Jeff Walz responded to Trump’s indictment in 2023 with the comment: “We’ve just become a third world banana republic.”
That comment, parroting Trump, was related to the case that would later see the ex-president convicted on 34 felony counts.
If you’ve got a MAGA relative, though, they’ll go out of their way to tell you, also parroting Trump, and Fox News and Newsmax and Tucker Carlson and Glenn Beck, something about “Biden” weaponizing the Justice Department to “get Trump,” and in the same breath prattle on about Hunter Biden and China, how Tim Walz had a DUI, how they heard Kamala Harris didn’t really work at McDonald’s.
My wife got a lengthy rude note from her mother because we put a Kamala Harris sign in our front yard.
That’s it; that’s all we did.
For that, we got a lecture on how, among many other transgressions, we support infanticide, which, if you need a fact-check on that, shame on you.
My sister, who I used to only hear from when she needed to borrow money – I wish I was making that up, but basically, I was the family bank – sent us a rude note on Facebook literally on the day of the Unite the Right Rally in 2017, with a photo of a Confederate flag.
The sin we keep committing: we support universal healthcare, we want kids to get a good education, we support reproductive freedom.
We think we’re all created equal – whether we’re white, black, Latino, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, agnostic, atheist, hetero, straight, LGBTQ+, any or all the above – and that we should be treated equal.
And we see people punching down, and we’re not quiet about not liking that, and we commit ourselves, every day, to fight back.
The framing from The New York Post on the estrangement between the Walz brothers makes it seem like it’s all on Jeff Walz, that he’s the one who won’t speak to his brother, because he looks down his nose at his belief system.
I’m not going to speak for the Walz family, but I can speak for myself here.
I don’t let perfect strangers try to shame me into thinking I’m doing something wrong by wanting everybody treated the same, by wanting everybody to have equal access to healthcare, to a quality education, to be able to make their own choices about their bodies and their lives.
Jeff Walz is every Democrat’s hateful MAGA relative.
The story here isn’t what The New York Post seems to think it is, is what I’m getting at.
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Chris Graham
