Lol Mayo Pete is hilariously unsuited to this moment yet establishment dems think he is perfect.
Take, for example, Pete Buttigieg. In a recent interview with Pod Save America, the usually eloquent Buttigieg was asked a series of straightforward questions. Would he support restricting aid to Israel? Would he recognize the State of Palestine, as other G7 countries have done recently? Would Israel’s behavior finally be a factor in how we treat the country? Instead of having a ready answer, Buttigieg delivered vague platitudes about moral conscience and needing to support Israel’s security. In particular, Buttigieg told Favreau, “I think that we, as Israel’s strongest ally and friend, you put your arm around your friend when there’s something like this going on, and talk about what we’re prepared to do together.” It was an odd choice, to say the least, to call an apartheid state a friend and talk of genocide as somethig akin to self-harm.
Get lost Pete and take Gavin Newsom with you.
California Governor Gavin Newsom, for his part, fared even worse when podcaster Van Latham asked him about AIPAC in a recent interview, responding by short-circuiting and saying the question was “interesting” a full seven times.
The thing that infuriates me the most is the smugness of these people to act surprised, as if this WASN'T a decades old dam that just broke that we all knew would break. Adapt or get the fuck out of the way, stop acting like the flood waters hurtling at you are something your wealthy friends can magically make go away and then being genuinely shocked when you are consumed by a rush of public backlash.