Tim Walz has managed to dominate the attention of the mainstream media over the past few weeks. Not because of groundbreaking policy announcements at the Democratic National Convention (because there were none), nor because of his taking part in a thorough and impartial CNN interview (because the interview was neither of those things), but because he has consistently been calling his Republican opponent, JD Vance, “weird”.
Assuming that Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota and the Democratic Party's nominee for vice president, is capable of coming up with an original thought, and that this wasn’t cooked up by a PR focus group funded by the $540-million Democratic fundraising campaign, it seems appropriate to discern what Walz means by the word "weird" and why he has used it so much.
