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Pete Buttigieg’s theory of political change

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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What Motivates Voters?

In your book, you talk about a woman in southbend who is married to an ndocumented immigrant. Her husband was deported by the trump administration and she voted for him. You write that many responded judge mentally towards anyone who could vote for trump and then be surprised by this sort of outcome. To do so is to assume that voting is about idiology and policy analysis, rather than identity and environment,. Could you unpack that story bitand what yu mean by that? Yes. Right now, i would argue that we're experiencing pique white identity politics as practised by the white house. But at its best,  what identity really means is we all acknowledge where we

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