Pete Buttigieg summed up his imaginative and prescient for America on Wednesday after comic Andrew Schulz remarked that Democrats didn’t have a “message” that was loud or controversial sufficient to counter the GOP’s platform within the 2024 elections.
The previous transportation secretary, in an look on Schulz’s “Flagrant” podcast, emphasised that Individuals deserve inexpensive transit, well-paying jobs and parental depart.
“And if you happen to don’t wish to have a child, I would like you to have the precise to decide on whether or not to have a child, which suggests entry to contraception and abortion, these issues that provide the freedom to resolve on that,” Buttigieg stated.
Buttigieg declared that kids ought to have entry to varsities with out funding being “slashed” as Republicans “set hearth” to the Division of Schooling earlier than including that Individuals must also have entry to scrub air and ingesting water.
He additionally underscored that households, together with ones like his, ought to be capable of go to mattress feeling “wonderful” even when a Supreme Courtroom justice desires to “obliterate” them due to their interpretation of faith.
“That’s the life I would like everyone to have the ability to stay,” he burdened.
Buttigieg’s look on the podcast — one which hosted President Donald Trump final 12 months — comes after Democrats and Kamala Harris took warmth for not dropping by “bro” media to the identical extent as Trump forward of his election win.
The Trump marketing campaign sought to “win over” younger males, discovering them to be a key voting cohort who engaged with politics “principally via edgy bro podcasts and social media,” Time journal famous within the wake of November’s election.
Schulz, a self-described lifelong Democrat, emphasised to Selection final month that he’s no “MAGA lunatic” only for having Trump on his podcast.
Earlier in his interview with Buttigieg, Schulz famous that Republicans have achieved a “good job of selling the perceived failures of Democrats” in relation to tackling points resembling homelessness in a number of cities.
Buttigieg — when requested how Democrats reply to such claims with out “gaslighting” these cities’ residents — stated his celebration ought to level to examples of “achievements” in tackling crime, homelessness and housing points.
He then turned his consideration to how Republicans sort out such points.
“Their reply is ‘Burn all of it down,’ proper? If we haven’t solved poverty, their reply is we’re going to slash Medicaid,” he stated.
He later stated, “When you assume the reply is to simply lower it or privatize it, that’s not a solution. We are able to do higher than that.”