As Buttigieg seeks a centrist lane, reread his praise of a politician he praised for restoring the faith of voters “weary and wary of political opportunism”
Buttigieg portrayed single payer healthcare as a centrist position. He lamented how the Obamacare, which he called a “conservative proposal” came to be painted as a left-wing program. He touted Medicare for All as a “compromise” position — between the pure, corporate, free market healthcare and a British style government-run health system. Medicare for All, he argued, was in the middle, a “single payer system where you have private doctors but a public payer.
When confronted about this shift, the Buttigeig campaign has refused to acknowledge their candidate has made any change in his position, with a stubbornness that verges on gaslighting.
Buttigeig began his essay with a lamentation. “Candidates have discovered that is easier to be elected by not offending anyone rather than by impressing the voters,” the young Buttigieg wrote. “Politicians are rushing for the center, careful not to stick their necks out on issues,” Buttigieg added, arguing that this “disturbing trend reveals cynicism” that he called “the greatest threat to the continued success of the American political system.
In effusive language, Buttigeig praised Sanders’ “energy, candor, conviction, and ability to bring people together stand against the current of opportunism, moral compromise, and partisanship, which runs rampant on the American political scene.” Buttigieg wrote that Sanders and others like him have the integrity to “win back the faith of a voting public weary and wary of political opportunism.”
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