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Minnesota’s own Governor Tim Walz and the missus returned to Minnesota on the losing end of the stick last week. They each made a post-election statement at Eagan High School. The whole shebang is accessible here on YouTube. MinnPost has a straight news account here.

Walz expressed a conciliatory sentiment or two. His ticket only carried Minnesota by four points. If he hopes to have a future in state politics, he should probably leave room to make nice with his political opponents.

Walz also gave the crowd the mock bravado along with a reminder why turned out to be such a dud:

“We know what’s coming down the pike,” he said. “We know it because they told us. And we’re gonna have to be ready to defend the progress we made in Minnesota.” Walz said he will take Trump up on his rhetoric that certain issues should be left to the states.

“I’m willing to take them at their word for that. But the moment they try to bring a hateful agenda into this state, I’m ready to stand up and fight,” he said. And in a series of clauses that began with “As long as I am governor of Minnesota …” Walz said he would defend reproductive rights, welcome immigrants, fight climate change, defend children’s right to attend school without worrying about gun violence, respect democracy and stand up for working people “no matter who they voted for.”

Walz returns a much diminished figure. In the glare of the national spotlight Walz was exposed as a compulsive liar. He made himself a laughingstock with his mock humility and effeminate theatrics. Some day perhaps the hometown press will dig down deep to find the wherewithal for an honest accounting.

Walz presented himself in the campaign as some kind of a freedom fighter. He proudly taunted Republicans to “mind your own damned business.” He was talking about abortion, of course, with respect to which the DFL has gone crazy. Everything else is their damn business.

The freedom shtick does not go down well with those of us who lived under his one-man rule for 15 long months. He gave us a vivid demonstration of the suffocating and destructive nature of dictatorship. To repeat, perhaps the hometown press will dig down deep to find the wherewithal for an honest accounting.

Such an accounting would also take up the role of the missus in the campaign. Who thought it was a good idea to license her to speak on behalf of the Democratic ticket? “Myself am hell” might have been her motto.