There’s shamelessness, and then politician shamelessness.
There are a few varieties of politicians. There are the relatively smart con men, the clueless followers who barely attain midwit status, and the vanishingly few politicians who believe in things and mostly tell the truth as they see it.
The first group amounts to about 10%, the middle about 80%, and if we are lucky, we get about 10% who are there to make America a better place.
Pete Buttigieg definitely fits into that first group, which is basically con men. Adam Schiff and Dan Goldman are in the same category, although, frankly, they are much worse at conning anybody but the marks who want to believe what they are selling.
Buttigieg is hardly as talented as, say, Obama, but he has a seemingly artless charm and wonkiness that appeals to “thoughtful” centrists who believe he really is a…
