Pete Buttigieg

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

So I think we need to be investing more in the same way that the right did for decades in thinking about, okay, what are our basic commitments in liberalism and what do they mean for a 2020s answer to what a department of education should look like or what housing policy ought to be like or how we do international development.

I think that's a really important piece.

A Project 2029, if you will.

Well, but more like a Project 2050, right?

This is what I'm getting at.

Like, I know there's a lot of kind of attempts at a Project 2029.

Some of them are doing really good work.

But, you know, the thing that became Project 2025 started in the Heritage Foundation in, I believe, 1980.

Like that's when they started this iterative process that they updated every few years that became Project 2025, which means if we wanted to do a Project 2050 and we started today, we'd already be like 20 years behind compared to that, right?

So like, of course we need answers for kind of immediate moves.

And what I admire about the Project 29 stuff is it's looking at kind of tools and laws and departments, things that exist right now and how you could run with them and make change right away.

That's great.

But who's thinking about 2050 and kind of solving back from that to what we ought to be doing in 2026 if we want to get to where we ought to be in 2050?

I think that's the level of ambition that the last generation or two of right wing think tank leaders and the smarter politicians on the right had.

And I think we've been punched in the face so much on the left and among Democrats that we have a hard time kind of seeing over the horizon into that.

The other thing I would say, I mean, some of that sounds like very kind of like big picture and cosmic and academic, but... It also sounds a little institutional.

I'm just spitballing right now.

I think we should have... We should be ready to do that kind of clean sheet thinking, especially because right now we have clean sheets in a lot of places because they just burned everything down.

I hate how we got the clean sheet.

Yeah.

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