Pete Buttigieg

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Secretary Pete Buttigieg: The American Dream Is DEAD. We're Running Out Of Time To Fix It! · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

In other words, guys like Trump don't get very far unless you're already in an environment where the political and social and economic systems are letting people down.

which is, I think, how we wound up here.

And I worry there's a big temptation, there will be a big temptation in my party to say, okay, our job is to take power, turn back the clock, reverse the damage, fix what was broken, and get us back to where we were, get us back on track.

I hear the word back a lot.

I hear the prefix re a lot, reverse, rebuild.

And I'm very worried about that, distracting from what our actual mission has to be.

which is to change and fix things so that we'll be set up well for the next 80 years.

So that's a harder project for sure.

But also sometimes the incentives change because the public is ready for something different.

And I think the public tried one flavor of something different with Trumpism and is ready to spit it out.

And so the question then is, okay, what are we offering in its place?

And to me, that's where some very day-to-day things like setting up a better healthcare system or reducing what we're paying in tariffs or better infrastructure or any of the other policies, paid family leave, all these policy things that I'd like to see happen really depend on fixing a political system that's just not as sexy.

But it can be

powerfully motivating because our country was started by people who fought a revolution to change the political system.

And I just can't imagine that it was just like Jefferson and Hamilton and these guys sitting in their studies reading, you know, John Locke and Rousseau and thinking, oh, it would be neat to try that somewhere.

I think they believe that like their lives and everybody's lives would be better, different if we actually had a different system.

And then they risked violent death

in order to challenge the existing political system that was the monarchy and replace it with the republic, the democratic country that they set up that is the United States of America, right?

So it's not like this can't stir passion.

Should we not be a country where everybody's vote counts the same?

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