Having gone viral during the veepstakes for calling MAGA Republicans “weird,” Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the newly-minted Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, offers the potential for the Democratic Party to make inroads in rural America and challenge perceptions that the party consists only of the coastal elites. Everyone from Lutheran pastors to high school wrestling coaches sings the praises of Walz and what he has done with the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party, now in control of the Minnesota legislature. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Midwestern liberalism is having its moment in the Democratic Party.