Opinion: Mayor Pete Understands Norwegian. Does He Understand The Presidency?
We worry that Jimmy Carter might be the more apt comparison. Like Buttigieg, Carter was a man of sharp intellect, a veteran, and a straight-shooting political outsider who pledged to address the country’s sense of crisis by restoring honesty and decency to an Oval Office tainted by vulgar political corruption.
Buttigieg has not fallen into that trap — far from it. Instead, he has yet to put forward a comprehensive agenda of any kind, substituting actual policy goals for fuzzy concepts of moral leadership. Unfortunately, that brings him no closer to understanding the actual role of the president than the legislative visionaries.
Buttigieg should understand this: the very topic he was discussing when he made his comment about moral leadership illustrates how effectively executive power can harm regular people when deployed for that end. Consider how the rules passed in response to the 2008 financial crisis have been ripped up under President Trump. One bad piece of Wall Street-friendly legislation passed by the Republican-controlled Congress is partly to blame, but Trump's appointees have been even more destructive. While legislators left key regulations governing the country’s largest banks intact, Trump’s appointees have put them on chopping block.
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