GOVERNOR ON KAMALA’S VEEP SHORT LIST HAS SOME INTERESTING THOUGHTS ON SOCIALISM:

“Don’t ever shy away from our progressive values,” [Minnesota’s Democrat Governor Tim Walz] admonished the “White Dudes for Harris” call on Monday evening. “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness,” the radical Democrat asserted. “Just do the damn work.”

Walz has done the work of inflicting radical policies on Minnesotans — turning the North Star State into something of a “cold California” with driver licenses and in-state tuition for illegal aliens, for example — but he talks like someone who hasn’t done his homework on the reality of socialism. More likely, he knows the truth — but is hoping Americans don’t.

In some commentary published by the Heritage Foundation, historian Lee Edwards reminded that socialism “is responsible for the deaths of more than 100 million victims,” citing The Black Book of Communism published by Harvard University Press in the late 1990s.

That work, Edwards underscored, documents how “each and every Marxist socialism regime has prevailed by way of a pistol to the back of the head and a death sentence in a forced labor camp.” This is what Governor Walz calls “neighborliness.”

Shades of then-Reuters chief editor Stephen Jukes’ infamous crack in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 that “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”