Tim Walz: Kamala Harris' VP Pick

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Dad Is on the Ballot

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Tim Walz was a dark-horse pick among the top contenders, but has a clear appeal to the Harris campaign.

The Minnesota governor has slid perfectly into a load-bearing trope of social media.

Walz is, in other words, extremely dad-coded.

The campaign seems to understand that the Dad is exactly the right meme to counter the alienating and extremely online tendencies of the right wing.

Walz’s Dadness may be a key reason his anti-Trump message stuck this summer .

Walz leapfrogged other vice-presidential hopefuls with a series of viral television appearances in which he ridiculed Trump as “weird” and said Trump and his VP pick, J. D. Vance , are “telling us what books to read”.

The trope of Dadness , as refined by the internet, is a cherished caricature.

Dad fixes things, but he is also an anchoring presence, tethered not to the choose-your-own reality of the internet but to the solid ground of the physical world.

Dad is above the fray, in part because he doesn't know how to log on and access it.

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