Summary

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg urged Democrats to stay focused and avoid being consumed by outrage over Donald Trump’s return to prominence.

Speaking to young Democratic officials, he emphasized re-engaging with voters through personal connections rather than relying solely on social media, calling for a return to pre-digital campaign strategies.

Buttigieg also pledged to defend President Biden’s achievements, warning that Republicans, including Trump, might attempt to take credit for them.

He cautioned Democrats against being paralyzed by shock tactics and hinted at remaining active in politics, though he withheld specifics about his future.

  • BMTea@lemmy.world
    349·
    2 days ago

    Pete can help unmesmerise us by promising not to run in the next primaries and endorsing a working class, rule-of-law candidate.

      • BMTea@lemmy.world
        246·
        2 days ago

        He is a conformist and a party creature through-and-through. He’s fine if you had no real objecgion to the way Biden governed except for his age. If you found Biden to be disastrous on a moral and political level, and you view the current Democratic Party as unfit or unwilling to chart a better course, then Buttigieg is liostick on a pig.

      • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
        142·
        2 days ago

        Not them. For me, Buttigieg was my 3rd preference in the 2020 primaries. I like him. I think he has a grasp of what must be done. Fun fact, he wrote an essay that won a contest with the JFK library back in 2000, essentially praising Bernie Sanders. I think he has his own method by which he achieves a similar outcome, possibly.

        That said he isn’t who comes to mind to win in 2028 because while I think he’s one of the best debaters, I’m not sure if he’s the most charismatic. In this popularity contest, charisma matters. He kind of suffers from Al Gore syndrome in that way.

        I won’t be one of those gatekeepers claiming a gay guy can’t win, though. That just amplifies the bigotry more, and we shouldn’t get in our own way.

      • NewDark@lemmings.world
        106·
        2 days ago

        McKinsey stooge that got caught fixing bread prices. He’s an unlikable charlatan neoliberal through and through.

      • SGGeorwell@lemmy.world
        98·
        2 days ago

        I don’t trust anybody who gets elected mayor of a small to medium-sized city in Indiana and immediately says, “well I’m ready to be President of the United States now”. It’s abnormally grandiose.

        • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world
          31·
          20 hours ago

          Quite a few of the other Primary candidates were/are even more unqualified. It’s a valid point that a presidential candidate should be someone with experience (and the humility to accept that they don’t have the experience). But if otherwise good people never put themselves out there as candidates because they don’t feel like they have enough experience, we’ll be stuck with more geriatric old men like Biden and Trump running things forever. At some point a little audacity to think “I work well under pressure, and I’m more qualified than half the other candidates, why not give it a shot” can be a good trait, at least it’s getting out there and getting busy trying to make the world better rather than what most of us do in assuming someone more qualified will run and then being disappointed by our available choices.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    2 days ago

    While I dont like Pete…

    If we’re looking for someone to sabotage an elected government, you can do a lot worse than a McKinsey man…

    https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/6/20998972/pete-buttigieg-mckinsey-fundraisers-elizabeth-warren

    Definitely don’t want to hand him the keys in 2028, but fighting fascism makes strange bedfellows

    But probably the least shady shit McKinsey gets up to, is getting paid a shit ton of money to tell CEOs that the right thing to do is layoffs and increase executive bonuses.

    It’s never the right answer, but it’s usually the one the executives paid to get, so they can say “this wasn’t our choice”.

    He’d make a great republican, but there is zero reason for him to ever have a position in the furtherest left option voters have.