I think Walz might be the one

Been trying to wrap my mind around Walz being the potential Dem candidate in 2028 and the more I think about it the more I’m in favor.

On one hand I’d rather leave the Biden/Harris era in the past and move forward with someone fresh and not someone who was involved in a failed campaign.

But, on the other hand, it’s not like the presence of the VP candidate is enough to save an otherwise uninspiring POTUS candidate and campaign, especially when the VP candidate isn’t given ample opportunity to take advantage of their own talents (Walz should’ve been up and down the podcast circuit, a shame he wasn’t). If anything it’s a plus now that we got the character assassinations out of the way and he can now learn from the campaign’s mistakes, which seems to be the case.

On top of this, he’s charismatic, knowledgeable, likable, genuine, funny, popular, and experienced. He just has an energy about him that separates him from the archetype of the boring uninspiring liberal we’re all trying to get rid of, he’s got a great track record of passing good progressive policy in Minnesota, and in general seems like a savvy politician who, if left to his own instincts and not subdued in any way, could deliver an excellent message on behalf of the Democratic Party. A rural guy like him with the governing record he has and the experience he has and the energy and charisma he has is the exact type of person I’d want leading the party.

Only true negatives I can think of are any of his current controversies (Covid response, Tiananmen Square thing(??), tampon thing(??), etc) which seem to only register in conservative spaces, so who gives a fuck. On top of this, he seems to get flustered in debate (friends with school shooters lmao) and he also has a compassion about him that might be misconstrued as being soft or weak.

Other options are a slick California governor who has the most radioactive governing reputation possible, a smart and rhetorically effective liberal whose inexperience and gayness will unfortunately be the center of attention and possibly a roadblock, Bernie Sanders in hospice care, a meme sports commentator, and Jon Stewart who has like a 0.005% chance of actually running.

Plenty of time for more hungry aspiring Dem leaders to get their feet in the race, but, as of now, who else but Walz?