The veneer of civilization, as history has shown us time and again, can be very thin indeed. Civilizations come and go, from the Indus Valley civilization that vanished about 600 BC to the ancient Greeks whose civilization collapsed about 300 BC to the Aztecs who collapsed in the 1500s, and many more. Some fall to natural disasters, some to internal strife, and some to attacks from without.
The United States, we might note, is seeing some internal strife right now, what with lunatics attacking people driving Teslas and shouting about burning Tesla dealerships, just to name one issue. But there's always a possibility of things getting well and truly out of control - and when a recognizable elected official starts talking about setting up alternate governments, well, then things run the possibility of going off the rails very badly.
On Friday, my colleague Nick Arama brought us the story of the unhinged vice presidential loser and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and his comments on forming a "shadow government."
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Nick wrote:
But it got worse. Walz then brought up the idea of having a "shadow government." Yikes.
🚨 TIM WALZ: "I think we need a shadow government so when all these things come up, every single day, we have an alternate press conference telling the truth about what things are happening." pic.twitter.com/jQDic0Espl
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 28, 2025"I've been saying this. I think we need a shadow government so when all these things come up, every single day, we've got an alternate press conference telling the truth about what things are happening," Walz said to cheers.
Is it hard to see how this could go badly wrong? We already have academics - college professors, who have great influence on young skulls full of mush in the university system - calling for the violent overthrow of the United States.
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How many more of these people have embedded themselves in academia, in the various levels of government, and the bureaucracy? How much of the Deep State consists of people like this? Tim Walz's statement here, his call for a shadow government, isn't just irresponsible. It's dangerous. What he is proposing is dangerous, and he should be called on the carpet for it by the media (hah!) and by the voters of Minnesota, although, candidly, both of those seem unlikely.
Think about this for a moment. A shadow government -- the very notion of it infers a claim to legitimacy. What Tim Walz mentions would be a sort of stay-at-home government in exile, a government in opposition to the legitimate government chosen by the voters. In the nature of such things, it would be peopled by radicals, people willing to use civil unrest, people who are so convinced of their righteousness that any action is on the table - like the people attacking Tesla drivers, like the people who are rioting and seizing buildings on college campuses, like the people who burned buildings, attacked cops and destroyed small businesses in the 2020 "Summer of Love" riots.
It would be only a matter of time before these people, convinced of the rightness of their cause, convinced by a near-religious righteousness, would begin to see themselves not as a shadow government, but as the legitimate government, despite all evidence to the contrary - like an election. That's when they take to the streets, in an actual act of insurrection. What happens then? Will the civil authorities in the largely Democrat-controlled major cities stand back as they did in the summer of 2020?
Sooner or later, unless local officials and law enforcement do something to rein these troublemakers in, the citizenry will grow frustrated enough to start making other arrangements. What if some informal armed security groups start springing up along the lines of the Roman vigiles? You know, the informal watchmen in old Rome, from whom we derive the modern term “vigilante”? And where, I ask you, does that lead?
It's easy to point and laugh at Tim Walz, who is a fundamentally non-serious person. But he's making a statement here, and while we don't need to take him seriously, we need to take this notion of his seriously. What he's proposing, however thoughtlessly, is dangerous.
The end of this, should people like Tim Walz achieve their wildest fever dreams, would be a kakistocracy - rule by the very worst of us. This would be the Biden administration on steroids - the left, unhinged and unleashed. That's what Tim Walz, wittingly or unwittingly, is advocating.
