Walz’s October surprise is no shock — but it will shake the swing states

Polls person razor-thin margins successful nan 7 states that’ll plaything nan ballot count adjacent month.

And arsenic if connected cue, a narrative-shaping communicative emerges that whitethorn aliases whitethorn not beryllium existent but lets america cognize really small swing-state voters cognize astir nan man who could person eventual proximity to nan presidency.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz allegedly had a large concealed romance pinch a Chinese Communist official’s daughter.

With astir a week earlier nan election, Jenna Wang made nan bombshell allegation she and nan Democrat had a passionate liaison that started successful 1989 pinch lovemaking to nan strains of George Michael’s “Careless Whisper” only to extremity successful long-distance dissolution, pinch talk of matrimony and Wang’s relocation to America ending successful recrimination.

Timing is everything connected a communicative for illustration this, and this is nan classical October surprise, a trick-or-treat container that makes america wonderment really aft Walz’s galore years successful authorities this smoking weapon materializes now.

Think of it: “Coach” went to China a fewer months aft nan sadistic subjugation of martyrs for state successful Tiananmen Square, which begot wide arrests, a crackdown connected media and protestation and nan extremity of a perestroika play for Beijing.

And he courts and sparks personification calved into statement loyalty allegedly.

She says Walz compelled her to slumber successful his compartment connected a train. Then, if she’s to beryllium believed, they wrote each different for years earlier it became clear connected his 1992 return they weren’t going to get married.

What does this mean, if anything?

Does it mean Walz was cultivated by personification who very easy could beryllium an supplier of overseas influence, pinch blackmail worldly held connected him until a clip to usage it?

Many of america person ex-girlfriends aliases boyfriends, sure. But really often are they capable to make narratively plausible cases astir clandestine relationships pinch Communists, a “passionate” emotion matter Wang says made her despair and consciousness for illustration a “prostitute”?

Or was he simply a young man connected nan make?

Whatever nan reply yet is, nan opus remains nan same, and it’s a sour note.

It’s conscionable nan latest Walzism that doesn’t adhd up, for illustration erstwhile he sewage caught successful a dishonesty during nan J.D. Vance debate. The ol’ “knucklehead” sewage it incorrect astir wherever he was during nan aforementioned 1989 massacre.

But it’s OK. Coach conscionable sewage “caught up successful nan rhetoric.”

There’s moreover his cosplay astir football.

First “coach” and past “assistant coach.” He plays that for each it’s worth, but he someway can’t people connected AOC successful a crippled of Madden while playing arsenic nan Vikings, pinch nan top wideout successful nan crippled arsenic a cheat-code advantage.

As if flopping astatine video-game shot designed, for immoderate insane reason, arsenic counterprogramming for nan existent NFL wasn’t enough, he past demonstrated his cardinal governmental flaw: He doesn’t cognize nan quality betwixt a bully play and a grievous error.

“You could tally a mean Pick Six,” said nan starring campaigner to beryllium nan man pinch nan slightest shot knowledge of anyone pinch a Y chromosome successful nan United States.

Then there’s his Elmer Fudd era.

Walz pulls retired a rifle, cosplaying arsenic a huntsman for illustration that’s expected to impressment anyone who ever gutted a food aliases cleaned and quartered a deer, bumbling and stumbling arsenic he tried to load his gun.

In a sense, he’s nan cleanable nominee for this statesmanlike candidate, who started disconnected pinch nan hype of Obama 2008 but appears to beryllium successful a tailspin for illustration nan extremity of Clinton 2016, erstwhile nan patina of inevitability was corroded by vulnerability and curdled. The agleam rhetoric of joyousness a representation amid nan closing-argument scoldings, nan wax depository of erstwhile leaders endorsing, on pinch popular stars person to their autumn to their rise.

Walz is but a simulacrum of masculinity. As Vice President Kamala Harris will show you, Democrats are successful a situation pinch men, who themselves are successful situation pinch a nine they often judge eliminated their masculine prerogatives.

They were raised by men who cosplayed. And for amended aliases worse, they spot erstwhile President Donald Trump arsenic authentic. That’s why young men are breaking to him and why the polling we cover keeps breaking Trump’s measurement also.

Can Democrats reverse that narrative? That doesn’t look apt unless location are much October surprises to come.