Buttigieg’s ascent shows millennial revolution spreading to U.S. by AndrewRomano
In case you’ve missed it, the “the hottest [2020 presidential] candidate in the land” is really, really young .
Yet over the past month or so, Buttigieg has hands-down won the “most improved” award among Democratic candidates. In the polls, he has escaped also-ran anonymity and emerged as a real if modest force, besting bigger names such as Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and Amy Klobuchar nationally and in Iowa, where more than one survey shows him ahead of Kamala Harris and Beto O’Rourke as well.
Ireland’s Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is the openly gay son of an Indian immigrant who trained as a doctor before seizing the reins of his country’s center-right Fine Gael party — and a key role in the U.K.’s endless Brexit drama. He was 38 when he took office. “A lot of countries have been electing 39-year-olds lately,” Buttigieg noted in January when Yahoo News’ Alexander Nazaryan asked if he felt prepared for the presidency. “Change has always come from young people. Changes we like, changes we don’t like: the civil rights movement, the Iranian revolution. It’s always young people at the tip of the spear. I don’t think it will be different this time.
It’s almost as if it’s easier for younger leaders, formed by fresher forces than their predecessors, to see conventional wisdom for what it is — merely conventional, and not necessarily all that wise.
“New Zealand stands apart in its widespread availability of weapons of such destructive nature and force,” Arden said. “Today that anomaly ends.” He is young and represents the rising generation, but he is also an older person’s idea of what a young person should be. … He doesn’t sound like an angry revolutionary. … He squares a lot of circles. He eschews grand ideological conflict [and] deftly detaches progressive policy positions from the culture war. He offers change without Sturm und Drang.
“It turns out that when you follow facts where they lead, it often takes you to places that are fairly radical,” he says. “Think about the structural problems in our democracy. I would argue that it’s pragmatic to point out that the U.S. has the wrong number of states and we should totally get rid of the electoral college. To me that’s pragmatic — even if it requires a constitutional amendment, which makes it bold.
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