“The Manchurian Candidate,” a 1959 novel by Richard Condon, posits the son of a prominent American political dynasty who is captured by a Soviet Union commando unit during the Korean War and brainwashed into becoming a Soviet sleeper agent, an assassin who is triggered into action by, of all things, a card game. The goal of the Soviet Union in this exercise? To have their sleeper agent kill a presidential candidate to install his running mate, who is secretly controlled by his wife, a secret KGB operator.
It seems a bit of a far-fetched scenario. Then again, we look at all the time the Democrat’s vice presidential candidate, “China Tim” Walz, has spent in China, in no small part as a guest of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and one has to wonder.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is asking some pointed questions about that.
DUFFY: Walz taught in China, he visited China 30 times,…
