folksy

As The Atlantic’s Tim Young notes, “Today’s Republican leaders are cowards, and some are even worse: They are complicit, as Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin proved… At least cowards run away…. Youngkin, however, smiled and dissembled and excused Trump’s hideousness with a kind of folksy shamelessness that made cowardice seem noble by comparison.”

The Vance who showed up at CBS seemed reasonable, misled the audience confidently and smoothly, and wrapped an extremist agenda in a fuchsia tie and a few folksy stories to seem family-friendly.

Walz is at home on the campaign stump, using his folksy style in contrast to more polished politicians.

What will it take for Tim Walz to appear more folksy than he already does?

But since then, the headlines have more often focused on his controversies than his folksy appeal.