Pete Buttigieg

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

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You know, that's a good example of something that we've lived with for a hundred years.

So we just assume it's in the constitution, just like the number nine Supreme Court justices know we're in the constitution, right?

Yeah.

The number 435 house members, if that feels random, it's because it is like we just updated every few years and then we stopped because nobody could agree on on how to do it.

The last time we tried, which I think was in like the 20s or something like that.

And it turns out that that is one thing that has made it easier to gerrymander.

And that is one thing that has contributed to the kind of lock of the two-party system that we have right now.

Maybe not the only or the most important thing, but my point is we need to be asking bigger and deeper questions than these kind of fine-tuning things.

So I think it's not just acceptable, but correct.

If you think of yourself as moderate ideologically...

to also be interested in radical change institutionally.

Because radical institutional change is literally the stuff of the founding.

It's what 250 years ago this month we did that made America, America.

And honestly, the changes I'm talking about are not as radical as that.

I'm not talking about overthrowing thousands of years of monarchy being the way you do things and replacing it with the untested republic.

I'm saying we've got to tune up our republic in ways that feel radical now.

But at other moments in our history have been perfectly mainstream.

You know, I also feel this way about the popular vote, which I still think has to happen sooner or later.

I think if we did, it would be good for every community, actually.

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