Buttigieg then vs. Buttigieg now. Running for president can sure change a fella's principles!
At Friday night’s Democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire, Pete Buttigieg attacked Bernie Sanders—who is polling ahead of Buttigieg in the state—for “dividing people with a politics that says, if you don’t go all the way to the edge, it doesn’t count. A politics that says, it’s my way or the highway.” On Sunday, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked Buttigieg if he believed “that the Democrats can defeatif they have to defend socialism.
But the quote from the clip above, back when he wasn’t so concerned about “fashionable” trends in the party, is basically a direct repudiation of today’s Buttigieg campaign: There was a moment where people just weren’t saying what they believed, especially on the left—they were just so cowed by living in this conservative moment that even Democratic presidents or politicians were saying conservative things, which to me raised the question of why we bothered voting for [Democrats]. So what was so interesting to me about then-obscure congressman Sanders was that he just said what he thought.
This is by far the most compelling change of heart, since it happened so quickly, but it’s also interesting to note that Buttigieg won an essay-writing contest as a senior in high school in which heIt’s hard to say what Buttigieg is thinking, but Sanders’s support is so strong because he has stuck to his principles through thick and thin, and doesn’t change based on what he perceives is the surest way to get him to the next rung of the political ladder. Perhaps it’s a lesson worth internalizing.
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