Walz Sits Down For Interview With Maddow

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It’s almost surreal to think that Tim Walz was one coconut mishap away from the nuclear codes. But here we are—watching him stumble onto MSNBC for what was supposed to be a rallying cry for Democrats but ended up looking more like an open therapy session with Rachel Maddow.

Minnesota’s governor, now licking his wounds after a brutal election loss, made his first major post-election appearance on The Rachel Maddow Show, where he spent the better part of his time reflecting on his “fatigue” and confusion over how things went so terribly wrong.

“You know that overused term, ‘The frog in the boiling water?’ We’ve been in the damn pot way too long,” Walz declared, reaching deep into the cliché jar to describe his party’s troubles. He then pivoted to advising disheartened Democrats on how to cope, as if he were some kind of self-help guru for the politically devastated.

“To the voters, I’m with this too. Everybody’s fatigued. Trust me, I get it,” he lamented. “It was pure hell, and the disappointment and the frustration, and I’m, you know, soul-searching – what could we have done to make the case?”

Now, if you stop and actually process what he’s saying here, it’s clear that Walz has learned exactly nothing from his loss. He’s still convinced that the American people rejected him and Kamala Harris not because of their policies but because they just couldn’t get the message across properly. That maybe, just maybe, if they had repeated the same stale talking points a little louder and angrier, they would have won.

This is a guy who really thought his rallies—his rallies, of all things—were an indicator that he was headed for victory. In a post-election interview with KSTP-TV, Walz admitted that he was “a little surprised” by the loss because, well, the campaign events were such bangers.

“It felt like at the rallies, at the things I was going to, the shops I was going in, that the momentum was going our way, and it obviously wasn’t at the end,” he said.

Yes, because nothing screams “landslide victory” like carefully staged rallies attended by the same 300 activists who would have shown up no matter what.

But perhaps the most telling moment of his MSNBC appearance came when Walz, clearly still reeling, decided to feed into one of the media’s latest debunked hoaxes—that Elon Musk, during a post-inaugural speech, gave a “Nazi salute.”

“You know, we spent three days, you know, debating … trying to debate that President Musk gave a Nazi salute — of course he did!” Walz exclaimed.

Of course, he didn’t. Musk had simply placed his hand on his chest and gestured outward toward the crowd, a common speech gesture that was immediately twisted into a scandal by the usual suspects in the press. Even the Anti-Defamation League (which isn’t exactly known for holding back on these sorts of accusations) looked at the clip and said, “Yeah, no.” But that didn’t stop Walz from throwing himself into the frenzy.

And yet, after indulging in the usual conspiracy-mongering, Walz then had the nerve to tell Democrats, “Don’t take the bait on the distractions.”

You can’t make this up.

His solution to the Democratic Party’s problems? Just keep doing exactly what they’ve been doing—smearing political opponents, complaining about misinformation while spreading it, and insisting that America would have embraced their “positive message” if only voters weren’t so fatigued. Maybe go share a bottle of Chardonnay with Hillary Clinton while you’re at it.

Walz’s interview wasn’t a strategy session—it was a real-time demonstration of why he and Harris got absolutely steamrolled. If Democrats want to figure out why they lost, they don’t need soul-searching. They need a mirror. And the next four years? Oh, they’re going to be “pure hell” for poor Tim.