Good New Yorker article about Buttigieg.

[LAS14]

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/23/pete-buttigiegs-high-hopes

Very long, of course.

"Watch Buttigieg long enough and you notice that he uses abstraction as an escape hatch. Above the quotidian divisions of politics, he describes a realm where all Americans are one. His campaign has failed dismally to attract African-American voters—according to one recent poll, his support among black Democrats in South Carolina is at less than one per cent—so I asked him what themes helped him make a connection with them. “A really big one is faith,” he said. What common ground could he offer Republicans, given his progressive policy ideas? “I think appealing to family and family values is really important to me,” he replied. It was like watching a pilot, once all normal systems had failed, push the button on an ejector seat. These appeals to old-fashioned American values are his most politician-like habit, and they give his language a touch of nostalgia."

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. It IS long, but it's well-written and above all, it's fair.

Lots of details too.

Thanks for the link!