Why you love Pete Buttigieg - by New York Times' David Brooks

[Gato malo]

The Buttigieg surge suggests that there are a lot of Democrats who want to say goodbye to all that. They don’t want to fight fire and divisiveness with more fire and divisiveness. They don’t want to fight white identity politics with another kind of identity politics.

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Young people are supposed to be anti-institutional, but Buttigieg is very institutional — his life has been defined by his service to organizations, not his rebellion against them.

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Second, he is gay and personifies the progress made by the L.G.B.T.Q. movement, but he doesn't do so in a way that feels threatening or transgressive to social conservatives. He has conservative family values; it’s just that his spouse is a husband, not a wife. He speaks comfortably about his faith and says that when he goes to church he prefers a conservative liturgy to anything experimental.

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Finally, he’s a progressive on policy issues, but he doesn’t sound like an angry revolutionary.Buttigieg’s policy positions are not all that different from the more identifiable leftist candidates. But he eschews grand ideological conflict.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/opinion/pete-buttigieg-2020.html

[USALiberal]

1. Read his book! Nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Good article!

I think David Brooks has some ideas that work about Buttigieg.

Sometimes when others are busy roaring, people are more likely to listen to someone who is saying great ideas in a soft, normal sort of way, and that's just what we need.

[Merlot]

3. I like Pete, but those are not the reasons why

In fact, those reasons make me like him less. "Conservative falmily values?" no thank you.

[cally]

4. And he joins the press pile on about Hilary Clinton

which lets all the white male commentators and "progressives" off the hook for their demeaning of our first female Presidential candidate that we thought would win the White House.

[shanny]

5. I like Buttigieg

but I don't know why a) we should take advice from Republicans in general or b) David Brooks in particular. eom

[Demit]

6. David Brooks, ugh. I don't know why he thinks he can speak for Democrats.

He should try to find some Republicans who eschew grand ideological conflict.

[Act_of_Reparation]

7. Pete Buttigieg seems cool, but fuck David Brooks.

Because, Jesus... fuck David Brooks.

[Paladin]

8. If it was written by David Brooks, I'm not interested.

I liked the NYT a lot better when its editorial staff was liberal.

[patricia92243]

9. Best article I have read on Mayor Pete.