Har­ris’ run­ning mate faces renewed scruti­ny after his ‘weird’ social­ism com­par­i­son resur­faces

Min­neso­ta’s Demo­c­ra­t­ic Gov. Tim Walz was blast­ed last week on social media after telling a group of Democ­rats that social­ism is what some peo­ple would call “neigh­bor­li­ness” in a clip that has received renewed atten­tion after he was announced as VP Kamala Har­ris’ 2024 run­ning mate on Tues­day morn­ing. “Don’t ever shy away from our pro­gres­sive val­ues,” the Min­neso­ta Demo­c­rat said on a “White Dudes for Har­ris” call last week. “One person’s social­ism is anoth­er person’s neighborliness.“The com­ment was wide­ly crit­i­cized by con­ser­v­a­tives on Twit­ter, includ­ing Man­hat­tan Insti­tute senior fel­low Ilya Shapiro, who respond­ed on X with “wei …