Pete Buttigieg 2.0 is serious about wanting to get Democrats on track now. Or at least that’s what he wants voters to think.
He’s grown a beard — in the springtime. And he’s wearing wrinkled button-downs with the sleeves rolled up. Not that there’s necessarily anything wrong with any of that. But it just seems to be a calculated move coming from someone who has presented a clean-shaven, polished, and mostly buttoned-up image in the time he’s been in the national spotlight.
Buttigieg also has a lot of pensive facial expressions he wants to show off, so we’ll know he’s really put some thought into what he’s saying. He wants people to know that he’s committed to doing the hard work of reversing the Democrat messaging trainwrecks of recent election cycles.
The problem with all of that, though, is that, like his tenure as Joe Biden’s Transportation…