Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 193
The Magnificent Seven
“The failures of the Obama era help explain how we got Trump. I am running on building a future that is going to have a lot of differences.”
— Pete Buttigieg, quoted by the Los Angeles Times.
Update: The reporter tweets he got the quote wrong as “the result of transcribing a noisy recording at a loud rally.” Buttigieg’s exact words were “failures of the old normal.”
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