Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: I'm switching to Buttigieg because he is a game changer. [View all]marylandblue
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Listen to him very carefully. He does not sound like any Democrat over the last 40 years. Both Democrats and Republicans have been living under Reagan's shadow. But in 2016 Trump showed the Reagan coalition is falling apart.
Sanders showed that a new liberal coalition is emerging, but he is too much of a economic progressive and not enough social progressive (though he is trying to fix that).
Buttigieg is a more natural blend of social and economic progressive, along with more moderate appeal. The new coalition will look something like that. So he is appealing to a broad array of constituencies, overlapping with Sanders and others. Even if Buttigieg does not win the nomination, he is pointing the way.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden