Stung by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s suggestion that the Grand Old Party is full of “weird people” these days, Republicans set out to prove they’re not weird in the weirdest possible ways.
Donald Trump Jr., son of the former president/convicted felon, fired back with a video clip of Vice President Kamala Harris having a nice chat with a drag queen.
The only one who came out looking less than fierce and fabulous in that post was Junior himself.
If you were one of the weird kids who got bullied on the playground, you might grow up to wear weird as a badge of honor. But weird hits differently if you were one of the bullies. Weird was their word for the weak. That might be why a party that shrugged off racism, sexism, school shootings, Nazi tiki torch parades, an attempted coup and a 78-year-old presidential candidate with 34 felony convictions absolutely melted down when Walz called them weird.
“This whole ‘they’re weird’ argument from the Democrats is dumb & juvenile,” sputtered onetime Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, continuing the party’s “I am rubber, you made eye contact with a drag queen” defense.
In the words of activist and school shooting survivor David Hogg — who has recently promoted Walz as a VP pick — “if you gotta say you aren’t weird- I got bad news for ya.”
By the weekend, you couldn’t turn on a Sunday talk show without finding a Democrat pointing to some weird thing happening over in the Trump campaign.
Walz, now on the vice presidential shortlist, was in the thick of it. When, he wondered, was the last time America heard Trump laugh? If Trump has ever laughed, Walz said, it was probably at someone, not with them.
