Opinion: How Pete Buttigieg can vault into the top tier
Sound Bend, Ind., Mayor Peter Buttigieg. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 1 at 12:30 PM South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg tweeted Monday morning:
— Pete Buttigieg April 1, 2019 Now, Sen. Bernie Sanders , who had a full-blown presidential network left over from 2016, likely raised more than that amount when final numbers are released. Beto O’Rourke, with a ton of free media, could raise even more, and Sen. Kamala Harris should raise huge amounts as well, thanks to her California donor base and a sophisticated small-donor operation.
So now what? Aside from building out campaign staff and using paid media to further increase his name-ID, Buttigieg has a chance to expand upon his generational change idea. In doing so, he can lay down a critique of the baby boom generation of politicians that includes most of his competitors. Second, Buttigieg’s most memorable line was “I was born to make myself useful.” We are all, or should be. He’s the perfect figure to push for a voluntary national service plan akin to ROTC. The country pays for your college; you pay it back in domestic service. If ever we needed places to foster national purpose and break down geographic, racial and socioeconomic barriers, now’s the time.
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