Pete Buttigieg

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The Bulwark Daily · Pete Buttigieg: Time for Radical Change · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

And now,

I think it's probably safe to say that a person who lives in a city, like a middle-class city dweller in China, on average, may live a more technologically advanced life than a middle-class city dweller in the US.

I'd rather be in the US.

Yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure.

But I'm just talking about one example.

AI obviously brings a whole other set of examples.

Of all these realities that have changed, the institutions haven't.

I think rather than just fine-tuning and tinkering, it's time to start over.

And in many cases, we have to.

So there's a reason that that particular policy wasn't on my list when I was running for president.

I am not here to say that the administration was wrong to take big swings.

Obviously, I was in the middle of the big swing we took on infrastructure.

I'm proud of it.

There's a lot of things also that I learned about what makes it harder to do more in the system that we have.

But also, good policies that were big swings, like the policy around the child tax credit that cut...

child poverty in half in this country, right?

I don't think the problem was that there were too many big swings.

We could argue that some of them were right, some of them were wrong, but I still think the bigger problem in those years was that our party was not ready to really dig in on the bigger, deeper structural problems that we have.

And I get it.

If you finally manage to pull off a win in this structure, are you really going to immediately turn around and try to take down the structure that you want?

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