The Minnesota governor said that the path to tyranny "is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting"

The Minnesota governor said that the path to tyranny “is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting”

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was testifying before Congress about his state’s handling of immigration when he learned Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security news conference Thursday.

The irony, he told the attendees of the Center for American Progress’ “Listening to Lead” event Friday, was in lawmakers grilling him and his colleagues, Govs. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y. and JB Pritzker, D-Ill., over the “incredible crime of treating people like human beings” as FBI agents tackled a sitting senator to the ground and handcuffed him in Los Angeles.

“I am not prone to hyperbole. I am prone to, like, popping off a little bit. I know that,” Walz said, prefacing his argument that Americans are living in a “dangerous” time. “I believed all along we were marching towards authoritarianism, and people were telling me in December, ‘You know, you’re overreacting.’ And I said, “The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.”

  • randon31415@lemmy.world
    2721·
    2 days ago

    people were telling me in December, ‘You know, you’re overreacting.’

    One day after saying this, the former speaker of the Minnesota house is gunned down by a pro-Trump extremist.

        • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          23·
          2 days ago

          It’s not redundant until the mainstream media frames the narrative based on reality instead of propaganda.

          Words have meaning, and we should do our best to use the most accurate, truthful words to reframe the narrative and ensure clarity; even when others do not.

            • nednobbins@lemm.ee
              2·
              1 hour ago

              How would you react if you saw a similar exchange between MAGAS?

              MAGA A: <some sweeping negative generalization.
              MAGA B: You don’t really mean that, right? It’s not all of them.
              MAGA A: I’m just joking. Relax.

              Would you take that response at face value or would you assume that the joke is a thinly veiled statement of their actual beliefs?

      • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        1 hour ago

        Yeah, the cowardly Minnesota leadership cancelled the No Kings protests, and their constituents said “Fuck That,” and showed up anyway. 80,000 angry Minnesota Americans chose to publicly protest, knowing that a vicious murderer who was targeting them was on the loose, while their elected representatives chose to cower behind closed doors.

        It’s long past time for Democratic politicians to match the energy, anger, militancy, and COURAGE of their voters. We elected them to represent and fight for US against the MAGA Nazis, and now we expect them to DO THEIR JOBS!

        If they won’t, we’ll elect people who will.

      • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
        14·
        2 days ago

        I guess you missed the memo lol.

        He had to say that because the assassin is still at large. He knew it wouldn’t stop the protests, not if the protests really mattered to the people.

        And boy, from what my friends up there showed me, they showed up.