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Pete Buttigieg’s theory of political change

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is This Person Going to Improve My Material Well Being?

In a very confictual political atmosphere where a lot is about drawing distinctions and mobilizing your own base, how then do you assure other people that for you to win, it's not going to lower their status? And i think part of what good politics does is it puts us in the biggest possible group. So one of the things i loved, and one thing i really admiread nd seek to emulate, about obama's a political figure,. Even though many changes we hoped for didn't come about in the obama years, he made people feel good about themselves simply being americans who were part of that.

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