Pete Buttigieg
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1,193 appearances
7 recordings
6 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 10 May
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I mean, don't get me wrong.
I don't think it makes sense to pretend that identity doesn't matter.
I don't think it makes sense to pretend to be colorblind.
I also don't think it makes sense to allow that to explain everything, which is one of the habits that's formed, I think, definitely on my party's far left that made it harder for us to get through.
Especially when you have a lot of people whose interests are shared.
I'm thinking about the economic interest of poor people and low wealth people in this country, for example.
who are black, white, and of every ethnicity and identity and gender, of course, who maybe didn't hear a unifying message that was speaking to them as a group because it felt like my party was, it was like a salad bar.
Like, here's something for your group and here's something for another group and here's something for another group.
And it just didn't add up into a story.
Now,
I would argue that Trump practices a kind of identity politics too, a sort of a white identity politics that makes people feel like they're encircled by the other, that immigrants are sort of an invasion.
I mean, we can go down that road and I often have.
But the more straightforward way to answer your question about my party is that I think identity has become too central to how my party thinks.
Famously, our party has a lot of different voices within it.
And so, you know, some folks, if you are not saying the leftmost thing, they're just done with you.
But I think a lot of others believe in the idea of politics as building a coalition and pulling people into a bigger picture.
And I'm going to say some things that, you know, won't be in conformity with what every activist group in my party wants to hear.
That's okay.
That's part of it.
Well, this is the classic issue with going from primaries to generals, right?
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