Congressman Ro Khanna, serving as a campaign surrogate for Kamala Harris, is expressing his disapproval of fellow Democrats calling Republicans “weird.” Speaking at an event hosted by the Guardian, Khanna said, “I’m not, in candor, a fan of calling each other ‘weird’ or names… I think we have to, in this country, and as a party, not just win, but deserve victory, and to deserve victory means to offer a vision that is going to bring this country together with a common purpose.”
The Harris campaign has repeatedly labeled former President Donald J. Trump and, in particular, his running mate Senator J.D. Vance, “weird” throughout the election campaign, with much of the corporate media amplifying the narrative. In July, Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz, said, “These are weird people on the other side; they wanna take books away, they wanna be in your exam room… these are weird ideas.”
The Minnesota Governor was referring to Republicans seeking to remove sexually graphic books from school libraries, such as All Boys Aren’t Blue, which describes underage cousins performing gay sex acts on each other, among other lurid passages.
Walz worked as a teacher for decades before entering politics, serving as a faculty advisor to a “gay-straight alliance” group pushing LGBTQ issues on minors as long ago as 1999. Many parents appeared to regard the behavior of the Democrat and his group as “weird,” pulling their children out of a “Gay Awareness Day” all-student assembly at which speakers discussed LGBTQ sexuality.
As Governor, Walz has made Minnesota a “transgender sanctuary state” and signed legislation that removed anti-pedophile language from employment protection laws.