Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Friday, September 29, 2023

The ‘most normal’ guy in the GOP primary?

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has a new title: “most normal” candidate in the GOP primary, according to fellow Gov. Tim Walz.

Not that Walz, a Democrat, thinks much of the field.

“I do believe that Doug is probably the most normal of these — that’s a pretty weird group of folks going to be on the debate stage,” the Minnesota governor said Sunday during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“Doug’s a pretty good guy, but he’s trapped in a Republican Party with no ideas,” Walz added.

Walz recently told The New York Times that if he were to vote in the GOP primary — which he said he does not plan to do — he’d vote for Burgum.

But that doesn’t mean Burgum should be free from criticism, Walz said Sunday.

“Doug wouldn’t answer the questions that need to be answered,” Walz said, after Burgum repeatedly dodged questions from host Chuck Todd about former President Donald Trump.

“This is one of these things. I think there’s an entire cable news industry, there’s an entire social media industry built around trying to answer that question,” Burgum said Sunday, when asked whether he believed Trump did attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

“We’re friends,” Walz said in his appearance following Burgum’s interview, “but I hate to see it go down this road. Those are very simple questions you are asking about the President, about the indictments.”

Original Article
Source: politico
Author:  Kelly Garrity

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