Everything in this is aggressively and openly superficial. For the supposed “wonkiness” of centrists the whole pitch for Buttigieg here is premised on how surface level affect and “acting presidential” is what matters. Politics as sappy Life Insurance commercial.
“We need a new generation of leadership to step up” yay 
Facile generational appeals are also all Joe Kennedy III has since he too is running against someone objectively to his left. “Aren’t old people just so old and sad and won’t it be good to see a fresh face on TV everyday” is the last refuge of someone who has zero substance
whats funny is Buttigieg initially presented himself as a "wonk" and the media repeated this line despite the fact he never discussed policy details but he was male & had a trained parrot's understanding of a few languages so it stuck. Now he doesnt bother, its just 100% schmaltz
