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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Pete Buttigieg’s theory of political change

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The 24 Hour Pothole Promise

Sally Kohn: I read your book recently, and one of the interesting sections in it is about why you abandoned the 24 hour pot hole promise. She says we are always responding to a hiped up outrage cycle that's being pushed by political leads on one hand, by mediate incentives on another. And all of us, a journalists, politicians, are incredibly responsive in ways that not only might not be optimatly efficient, but often seem to me to be truly inefficient,. where pretty deep issues get left behind for very long periods of time because we're constantly chasing this outrage ball.

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