Pete Buttigieg Offers Advice To Democrats On Getting Through Trump's Presidency
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"We cannot be mesmerized by the worst things that we see happening," the transportation secretary said.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told a gathering of young Democrats on Thursday not to be “mesmerized” by what takes place during Republican Donald Trump’s upcoming presidential term.
“We cannot be mesmerized by the worst things that we see happening,” he told the group of elected officials at a conference in Washington, as The New York Times reported. “We will be inclined to react with shock by some things which are done precisely with the intent of shocking us. We need to move very quickly through the shock.”
Buttigieg, a 2020 presidential candidate and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, also called on his party to “figure out how to take online conversations offline at scale.”
“While it is not obvious how to do that, that is something that through human history until about 15 years ago, we all did,” he said. “So we’re going to have ways to do that that might on some level be a return to form, but on other levels entail information environment work that is unfamiliar to people who have taken a free press in a democratic society for granted.”
His suggestions are akin to those of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who said after the 2024 elections that it will be important for Democrats to build community and engage in more direct, offline communication in the years ahead.
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