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329 | Saagar & Marshall on Congress, Airline Debacles, & Taiwan + John Lettieri on Non-Competes and American Dynamism

The Realignment

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You Can Tell a Lot About a Man or His Performance as Secretary

Pete Buttigieg is so good at like narrative setting, right? He's smart. And you can tell a lot about his performance as secretary by what politicians were expected to do when he was around our age. This is also 2012 when Julian Castro gave the big Obama speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention and then became housing urban development secretary. There was just this era that was just about if you could position yourself narratively speaking. That was basically your job. It just seems that he just comes from that and hasn't been able to transition himself to once again.

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