Walter Hudson on the Minnesota House floor (www.mprnews.org).
Steve Timmer
by Steve Timmer
Jul 3, 2025, 12:30 PM

Wally, you can’t condemn a person to hell

And then sing Kumbaya

Rep. Walter Hudson, a proud resident of Wright County, probably the most febrile region of the Febrile Crescent, and a long-time political bomb thrower, stretching back many years before he was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives, appears to be engaged in a redemption tour of sorts after the assassination of Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and the attempted assassination of Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette.

The Hoffmans seem to be doing pretty well, as of this writing, in spite of being literally riddled with bullets by Vance Boelter, a man consumed by christo-nationalist fantasies, spoiling for “war” against the people he was told were responsible for his problems, namely Democrats.

As chronicled in Name what is broken, Walter Hudson is one of the people who told people like Boelter that they were at war against Democrats. In addition to the links in Name what is broken, consider this:

In an interview with Walter Hudson, Cathy Wurzer of Minnesota Public Radio gives Hudson and Rep. Harry Niska props for posting on X disputing Boelter’s statements that Walz told him to kill Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar. Wurzer marvels over Hudson’s nuance. Wurzer has a low bar for analyzing nuance.

Wurzer asks Hudson if he regrets calling Democrats “demons,” and he said yes. Of course, he’s called Democrats much worse, and Wurzer glosses over that. There is thing exchange in the interview:

Wurzer: It seems that your social media followers aren’t giving you any grace regarding your comments on the Hortmans’ murder.

Hudson: No, and look, I can understand where they’re coming from, because they are not as personally attached to it as I am, as somebody who knew her as a human being.

Unlike me, they aren’t nuanced, says Wally.

And let’s be honest, somebody who serially tells Democrats that they will burn in hell, and that war ought to be waged against them, is not encountering Democrats as human beings. If Wally Hudson has been on your radar for a while, you know he has contempt for Democrats as untermensch.

You can’t express that contempt for years and then be redeemed with a single stanza of Kumbaya.

I can’t end the story without reference to Harry Niska’s disclaimer of responsibility for Boelter’s actions. Niska is a stochastic terrorist just like the rest of them.

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