Pete Buttigieg

We got to lean in.

We got to use the tools of the state, not in a socialist way, but in a way to try to have things be more balanced in this country.

We got to use the tools of the state, not in a socialist way, but in a way to try to have things be more balanced in this country.

Is there a contest between the center left and the far left or however you want to characterize it?

Is there a contest between the center left and the far left or however you want to characterize it?

But then, you know, I mean, today's Republican Party is a coalition of normal Chamber of Commerce business Republicans, more the kind of tech Republicans who, to me, are more libertarian, even though it puzzles me that they're for such dramatic government control over society right now and Trump.

But then, you know, I mean, today's Republican Party is a coalition of normal Chamber of Commerce business Republicans, more the kind of tech Republicans who, to me, are more libertarian, even though it puzzles me that they're for such dramatic government control over society right now and Trump.

But whatever.

But whatever.

My point is you have you have normal business Republicans, you have techno libertarians, you've got.

My point is you have you have normal business Republicans, you have techno libertarians, you've got.

Economic populists who are in many ways to the left of even left of center in some weird ways on trade and some issues like that.

Economic populists who are in many ways to the left of even left of center in some weird ways on trade and some issues like that.

Then you got white nationalists.

Then you got white nationalists.

I don't know that they can coexist for long if they're not held together by the awe of or fear of the personality of Donald Trump.

I don't know that they can coexist for long if they're not held together by the awe of or fear of the personality of Donald Trump.

People keep imagining maybe what if we had a third party?

People keep imagining maybe what if we had a third party?

I look at other countries that have, it's not unusual in a lot of other modern countries to have four, five, six, seven parties.