Right Wingers Attack Walz For Having Regular-Guy Finances - Weird!
If you ask me, attacking a guy for not owning stocks and bonds, which most Americans don’t, is not the greatest selling point for the right-wing’s so-called populism. But go ahead, MAGA, you do you.
Media Matters is out with some research showing that while most elected officials own investment assets, most Americans do not own stocks, bonds or cryptocurrency. That means Gov. Tim Walz is just like most of us.
Since MAGA world hates almost everything most Americans love (Social Security, Medicare, reproductive health rights, common-sense gun laws, etc.), the righties are attacking Walz for not being more of an elitist.
They’re pretending otherwise but a millimeter under the surface of the MAGA attacks is the message that only the wealthy are eligible to govern. Media Matters cites several examples of right-wingers suggesting that Walz’s lack of an investment portfolio means he’s against capitalism, doesn’t understand basic economics and doesn’t “invest in America.”