What do we see in the immediate response to Gus Walz?
By Pamela Paul / The New York Times
Gus Walzs unbridled emotional reaction last week at the Democratic National Convention to the nomination of his father, Gov. Tim Walz, embodied both the humanity that lies beneath the political process and the momentousness of the political process itself.
In other words, Gus reacted the way he did because he recognized the import of his fathers nomination. And because the man onstage was his father Thats my dad! a man who raised and supported and accepted and loved him for who he is, a 17-year-old boy with anxiety and a learning disorder and, as Tina Brown wrote in her gorgeous essay Friday, a human like any other.
Gus reaction was beautiful. And then things got ugly.
In response to Gus exuberance, Ann Coulter posted on the social platform X, Talk about weird
(She later took her post down.) Sorry, but this is embarrassing for both father and son, conservative radio host Jay Weber posted. If the Walzs represent todays American man, this country is screwed, he said, adding a crude insult of the teenage Walz. (He, too, removed his post.)
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And righties wonder why nobody likes them.