MN lege: Empty Daudt bluster reminds you of someone

It's no longer "Speaker" Daudt, it wasn't even close in November, and he's not handling it with what you'd call gentlemanly aplomb.

The 2019 Minnesota House convened Tuesday under Democratic control for the first time in four years and it didn’t take long for lawmakers to square off in a partisan fight.

Shortly after Rep. Melissa Hortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, was elected the new speaker of the House, her rival for the gavel, former speaker Rep. Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, lambasted Democrats, saying they were breaking a campaign promise to be more transparent...

The procedural argument was in contrast to the cooperative tone Hortman tried to set in her remarks after winning the speaker’s gavel. - Pioneer Press

During his time as Speaker, Daudt frequently showed himself to be egocentric, selfishly stubborn, and manipulative. It's a combination of "governing" traits that I refer to colloquially as "2-year-old-in-an-adult-body." And the all-time supreme example of it is in the White House, right now.

I'm not suggesting that Daudt is anywhere near Traitor Trump's level when it comes to a truly loathsome set of character traits, combined with apparently no redeeming qualities as a human being. Hardly anyone is. But the two-year-old thing, while not limited in politics to the right wing, certainly manifests itself most massively there, by far. Hopefully voters will reject it in increasing numbers.