Pete Buttigieg: The Left's Identity Crisis, Wealth Tax, 2024 Mistakes, Plans for 2028
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There's certain trillion dollar ideas that the private sector just won't do because it doesn't pencil or because of whatever market failures there. That's where you need government. First of all, the the debt path we're on is not sustainable, that I think identity has become too central to how my party thinks. My big worry is that if we're already at a level of concentration of wealth and power that no republic has ever survived. Is this gonna be a development that just makes wealth and power even more concentrated in even fewer hands. All of you.
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What'd you gonna say? That was fun. How much great? I'm doing all in. Alright, everybody. Welcome back to the All In podcast interview series. Last week, we had Joe Manchin on this week. Pete Buttigieg is here. Everybody knows mayor Pete, born in South Bend, Harvard, Rhodes Scholar, McKinsey, US Navy, and, of course, ran for president and was the transportation secretary under Biden. Welcome to the program, Pete Buttigieg. How are you?
Good. Thanks for having me.
Pleasure. Amit Shamaf Palihapatthiya, a former Democrat who re underwrite his support of your party and now is a Republican. And, really, the spirit of this program is to just have a candid discussion. We like to get into the details. And so I thought I wanted to start with your perception of entrepreneurs, technologists, etcetera. I was watching a clip of you on Bill Maher, and you said, hey. You know, these these libertarian science based folks in Silicon Valley, they made a very practical decision. These are rich men who have decided to back the Republican Party that tends to do good things
Well, don't think you can reduce it to any one thing but I certainly think that's part of the story. Look, it's no secret that republican policies tend to favor people who are wealthier and a lot of people who drifted away from the democratic party, at least the ones who were getting a lot of attention like how could these business figures, investors, billionaires have gotten away from from democrats and gone to republicans. Might be kind of a, you know, dog bites man story like not something that's wildly complicated if you look at the fact that, you know, Democrats have been extremely concer
Do you think that there was censorship under the Biden administration for things like scientific truth? Let's just focus on COVID for a second and the back doors that it seemed that the Biden administration had to places like Facebook and places like Twitter to just suppress scientific thought and debate as you just talked about.
So this is an amazing example of some of the false equivalencies that I've seen thrown around out there. So, yeah, I I would acknowledge. I think a lot of folks would say that, you know, it it came really close to the stove some of the times when the administration was trying to make sure that, you know, bad information or misinformation wasn't being pushed into the kind of public health conversation and was engaging social media companies that were trying to be responsible and do the right thing and and there might be moments that that you know, they got that wrong or went too far. But right
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