Pete Buttigieg Is The VP Man For The Post-Trump Era

VP now, president later?

Dash MacIntyre

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Of all the potential vice president candidates in consideration, Pete Buttigieg has shown peak precision killing it on all the cable news shows he has been on this last week and a half.

I don’t hear his name much in the VP shortlists, which seem to most often highlight Josh Shapiro, Mark Kelly, and Tim Waltz, but in this digital age of wild west communication Buttigieg cuts through the noise and stays laser-focused on the point, which he articulates clearly and compassionately. And his Midwest background will likely help Harris with Blue Wall voters.

Boomer pundits in the media worry about the demographic concerns of his being gay, but, with a Gen X female candidate who is of Jamaican and Indian descent, the demographic novelty is a little overshadowed by the excitement of millions of Gen Z and Millennial voters who aren’t homophobic and are relieved by Democrats offering a generation shift away from the Boomers, particularly the brain-melted, Fox News-addicted MAGA variety of Boomer.

And speaking of that exact demographic of voter, no Democrat over the last four years has more effectively gone into the lion’s den of Fox News and explained liberal policy and Democratic action more clearly and rationally to those MAGA Boomers than Buttigieg…

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Dash MacIntyre

Comedian, political satirist, and poet. Created The Halfway Post. Check out my comedy book Satire In The Trump Years, and my poetry book Cabaret No Stare.