Opinion: Buttigieg might save the Democratic Party from Sanders
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks during a campaign stop last week at a dairy company in Londonderry, N.H. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 24 at 3:15 PM With a smile on his boyish face, South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg surgically cut Sen. Bernie Sanders down to size on CNN on Monday evening.
I think of myself as progressive. But I also believe in capitalism, but it has to be democratic capitalism. In that answer, Buttigieg aligned himself with the mainstream view that capitalism is a successful economic system, but he also explained the tension between capitalism and democratic values — all while making the point that Sanders’s label is a significant unforced error.
The New York Times reports, “Mr. Buttigieg is more willing to confront other candidates, and his party more broadly, in ways that could resonate with moderate Democrats and perhaps some of the independents who can vote in either primary here.” But he does so without animus and while preserving his progressive bona fides:
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