Bogeyman?

One of the things I'm hearing from political commentators is that perhaps Harris should not have picked someone "so far to the Left" to be her running-mate.

This is silly.  The initiatives that Tim Walz has supported in Minnesota are barely significant: breakfast and lunch for school kids?  Access to tampons?  Availability of health care and reproductive care for women?

These are more notable as being irritants to die-hard far right individuals, than matters to be noted by centrist Democrats.  They need hardly any budget. 

Of course, setting the ACA into law, and encoding Abortion rights will make the testosterone-infused religious, misogynistic, right-to-"Life", MAGA morons get colon cancer, but that's fine; they're a minority within MAGA anyway. They will, of course, have costs, which the Federal Government will subsidize.

I don't know whether Walz encouraged any legislation about library censorship.  I don't have strong feelings about that; it simply underscores the general anti- intellectual culture of the Trump camp.  But from those who resent having their freedom curtailed, censorship looks like hypocrisy.  Hypocrisy is real, you can't gaslight it away.