Thread by @Monaheart1229

"..as we now know way crazier things have happened than a candidate maintaining his or her unexpected popularity all the way through to the conventions.." This is an excellent article @ Pete Buttigieg. #TuesdayThoughts
nymag.com/intelligencer/…

2-"..Religious? He’s a Christian. Atheist? He’s not weird about it. Wary of Washington? He’s from flyover country. Horrified by flyover country? He has degrees from Harvard and Oxford. Make the President Read Again? He learned Norwegian to read Erlend Loe.

3-"Traditional? He’s married. Woke? He’s gay. Way behind the rest of the country on that? He’s not too gay. Worried about socialism? He’s a technocratic capitalist. Worried about technocratic capitalists? He’s got a whole theory about how our system of “democratic capitalism”

4-" has to be a whole lot more “democratic.” If you squint hard enough to not see color, some people say, you can almost see Obama the inspiring professor. Oh, and he’s the son of an immigrant, a Navy vet, speaks seven foreign languages (in addition to Norwegian, Arabic, Spanish,

5-"Maltese, Dari, French, and Italian), owns two rescue dogs, and plays the goddamn piano. He’s actually terrifying. What mother wouldn’t love this guy?..
There was cheering and chanting, then finally his recently identifiable face sprouting on the stalk of his five-foot-nine-

6-"inch frame from amid the forest of iPhones and cameras and mics. “I heard the way you ingratiate yourself to voters is to stand on things, so I found this park bench here,” he said...He said his campaign “will not only win an election but help us begin to win an era.” And by

7-"this he doesn’t mean the same thing Bernie Sanders does by “revolution,” but something much more like what Obama meant by “change.” Even on the trail, he talks a lot more about democratic reforms and the party’s long game than you’d think voters would have any tolerance for,

8-"as they stare down what many seem to consider the most important election of their lifetime, and possibly the country’s...Buttigieg has something in common not only with Obama but with the two Democratic presidents before him: faith. “His fluency on faith and his willingness

9-"to speak about it is an asset,” he said. “Carter, Clinton, and Obama — they all shared that quality. It was one of the cues that opened the door to voters.”...“two ways” to look at the race: You either “beat Trump at his own game,” and alienate crucial voters in the process,

10-"or you “build a bridge for people who may have voted for Trump and who may like some of the things he’s done but are troubled by him.” Buttigieg is uniquely able — and willing — to do this Axelrod said, because such voters helped get him reelected (with 80 percent of the

11-"vote) when Mike Pence — a born-again Christian and zealous opponent of the LGBTQ community — was the governor of Indiana. Buttigieg is often asked how he would defend himself against Trump on the debate stage, or once the insult-comic campaign alter ego logs back on full time

12-"He always says the same thing, that you’ll never be able to beat him with a savage one-liner, that beating him will mean ignoring him, to some degree, so that someone else — and their ideas — can get some oxygen..." ~excerpts New York Magazine, Olivia Nuzzi, Vision 2020, 3/16