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Opinion | Tim Walz exudes Midwestern dad energy in the best way

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65% Informative

Tim Walz is a man who exudes an authentic Midwestern ethos, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: Walz's politics are radically inclusive, and he offers a different vision of what this country can be.

He says picking Walz makes sense who gets to define this country and gets to be defined.

He’s an older white man and he is out there calling Trump and Vance “weird” — aberrations from the norm — and that critique means something coming from him, a white male governor from a Midwestern state. A region so often mocked for its blandness that the blandness, like the Miracle Whip in the potato salads, becomes a binding agent — a cohesiveness we very much need in the vastness and complexity of America ..

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70

Informative language

68

Neutral language

52

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

41

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offensive

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not hateful

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not detected

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detected

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short-lived

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