Tim Walz: ‘I Believed All Along We Are Marching Towards Authoritarianism’

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WALZ: "I was there with Gov. Pritzker and Gov. Hochul, and they were grilling us because we have committed, I guess, the incredible crime of treating people like human beings. That was kind of our frame. And it was during that hearing that I heard about Senator Padilla. And so I’ve been saying it, and I am not prone to hyperbole, I am prone to, like, popping off a little bit, I know that, but, you know, pretty — like, you know, I gotta see the facts, I've got to do all this, I believed all along we are marching towards authoritarianism. And people were telling me in December, 'You’re overreacting,' and I said the road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting. And it has just been a steady state. I mean, this is so predictable. So I would say I think we’re in a dangerous time. I think we’re seeing it manifest itself.”