Column: The unflappable Pete Buttigieg is (still) the Democrats’ best political communicator

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, speaking in March on “Fox News Sunday,” always seems ready to appear on Fox or any other platform with an arsenal of facts and an unflappable demeanor. And if you want to know what a second Trump term would be like, I would start by looking at those rare promises that he actually managed to keep.” When Bream pushed Buttigieg on the issue of Biden’s age and ability, he deftly turned the tables: “Unlike Republicans, who in Trump’s personality cult will take a look at Donald Trump and say he’s perfectly fine even though he seemed unable to tell the difference between Haley and Pelosi, even though he’s rambling about electrocuting sharks and Hannibal Lecter. we don’t have that kind of warped reality on our side.” The game, set, match interview almost immediately went viral on every media platform in existence — nothing impresses TikTok users like “ultimate burn” energy, and Buttigieg did it without breaking a sweat, or even raising his voice. Vance “a regrettable choice because is somebody who was at his most convincing and effective when he talked about how unfit for office Donald Trump is, and he has not explained any reason, other than of course his obvious interest in power, why he would have changed his mind on that.” When, on HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher asked Buttigieg, a gay man, why he thought PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, another gay man, was pouring money into the Trump campaign, Buttigieg refused to take the identity politics bait. “Well, there’s a classic parlor game of trying to find a little bit of daylight between running mates,” Buttigieg said.