Can a Midwestern mayor whom the right will inevitably brand as a gay socialist have a shot at the presidency? Stranger things have happened. (via latimesopinion)
The first time I heard about Pete Buttigieg — the mayor of South Bend, Ind. — was on Feb. 2. As I kvetched about the lackluster Democratic landscape, a Hoosier friend told me, “Keep an eye on Pete Buttigieg.”My blind spot may have stemmed from still being zonked after covering the 2016 campaign or having a dim view of mayors as presidential candidates .
Then again, our current emperor-in-chief had never served in public office, so who knows what hits. Either way, as the weeks went on, I struggled to keep Buttigieg on my mental list of contenders. The national conversation was moving full speed: from Biden to Bernie, Booker to Beto, Kamala to Klobuchar, Warren to Schultz, and through the dozens of other
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