Your article says Pete started work in his 20’s as a consultant for McKinsey.

Specifically, for Loblaws, which was in the middle of the bread price fixing scandal while employing McKinsey to facilitate it. This was a career accomplishment that Pete touted while running for office, because he thought "I worked 14-hour days to make a grocery store more efficient!" was going to be received as a testament to his hard work.

Anyone familiar with what McKinsey consultants actually do within a company will tell you why that's bullshit. And why "McKinsey Consultant" on a resume typically signals someone as spineless as they are ruthless, when it comes to ruining the lives of the working class.

This doesn’t feel like a big deal to me or your average American.

Your Average American probably couldn't pick Pete out of a line-up. Or JD Vance. Or Mark Zuckerberg. So, no surprise there.

This feels like a campaign to run the career of a young and potentially effective Dem politician

You make it sound like Pete doesn't already have a political track record. The folks that do know him - whether from his mayoral days in a small Indiana town where he privatized public services and bloated the police force - or as Transportation Secretary under Biden - during which he presided over a number of high profile train crashes and helped break a strike of Union Pacific workers - tend to hate him.

If he manages to reach the next rung of the political ladder, it will only be thanks to insiders in the Dem establishment boosting him in exchange for money from his extensive private donor network.