Pete Buttigieg says the end of Tr*mp is only the beginning: “I’m going to be in politics longer than he is”

I think our party is still struggling to have this idea of what happens when Tr*mp leaves the scene as a beginning point instead of the be-all, end-all goal of what we’re doing.

I think an increasing number of Republicans are doing. If you look at the defection of Marjorie Taylor Greene, if you look at the Indiana State House Republicans defying the president on redistricting, I think what a lot of them are thinking to themselves is, you know what, I’m going to be in politics longer than he is. And yet that’s actually a real struggle for Democrats.

I think because we are understandably so horrified by all of the abuses that are going on right now. But we’ve got to have answers about not just how to end the horrible things we’re seeing right now. And the really amazing thing is, on so many of the answers, including things we’ve been saying all along, like making sure that the wealthiest pay their fair share in taxes, or making sure that there’s a better solution for people to get health care, or you name it, issue after issue, it’s like two-thirds of Americans agree with us.

And so we have to be asking ourselves some pretty hard questions.

If there’s issue after issue where two-thirds of Americans are with us, and we’re not always getting 50% in the election, how are we talking about these things?
Pete Buttigieg speaking on the ‘Raging Moderates’ podcast about planning for what comes after the demise of the convicted felon president.