Strategic and progressive, the choice of the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris to indicate the Minnesota Governor Tim Walzretraces the hopes and prospects of the new Kennedy frontier. A new social and political frontier with an international projection that still echoes in the words of the President John F. Kennedy: “it is not a frontier that assures promises, but only challenges, full of unknown opportunities, but also of dangers, unfulfilled hopes and threats”. A challenge to the absolutist populism of Trump who has hinted several times at the intention to abolish elections, exactly as the Russian interface of the tycoon Wladimir Putin has in fact anticipated, but also a challenge to the nationalist conservatism that is distorting the principles and hopes enshrined in the American Constitution..
The waltz of freedom and the spirit of the new frontier with which Kamala Harris and Tim Walz intend to involve and motivate the citizens of the United States of America and in particular the new generations, includes the essential reforms which as Governor of Minnesota Walz transformed into the most progressive legislative realities of recent years: the defense and protection of abortion, measures to limit the sale and control of weapons, school meals for all, tolerance for the consumption of soft drugs. The confrontation that is emerging between the Democratic ticket Harris – Walz and the Republican duo Trump – Vance is that between the most conservative component of the Republican world and the progressive component of the composite democratic universe that includes liberals, radical chic, pacifists, ecologists and the pragmatic Texan wing of the Great Society of Lyndon Johnson, the President who on the one hand promoted a broad plan of social reforms and advancement of civil rights for the black population, until then segregated, and on the other intensified the war in Vietnam.
While Kamala Harris embodies the economic and social continuity of the Biden and Obama presidencies, Tim Walz covers the vast and multifaceted area of civil rights and environmental movements.. The 60-year-old governor of Minnesota, a crucial Midwest state, is married with two children, and is a former history professor and former member of the National Guard, a veteran of politics having served in Congress for 12 years, before being elected to lead his state twice. In recent times he has coined a definition of success that has gone viral to define the Trump-Vance couple: “plain weird”, simply bizarre. The substantial difference between the two tickets is the experience and political quality of the protagonists. However, there is also a difference in the chemistry of the two tickets. JD Vance is in fact considered an heir, or rather a clone of Trump, projected towards the 2028 presidential elections and instead the choice that fell on Walz, evidently also for a greater personal affinity, leaves the race open within the Democratic family.
