My three-year-old is currently going through a phase where she calls everyone and everything “poopy” with the utmost glee. Now you may think this is typical toddler behaviour but I reckon she’s got a promising future in Washington DC ahead of her. As you may have noticed, we have entered into a weird phase of the US election cycle – one in which Democrats have realized that childish insults can be quite effective campaigning tools.
The Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, started it. He’s been calling Donald Trump and his asinine associates “weird” for months now, but the insult only got traction after he used the term on two separate interviews with MSNBC last week. “These are weird people on the other side,” Walz said. “They want to take books away; they want to be in your exam room. That’s what it comes down to. Don’t go sugarcoating this – these are weird ideas.”
