Buttigieg: The founders didn’t set up a democracy because they just thought it was academically interesting. They did it because they saw that if one person has too much power, daily life gets worse. That’s why I’m a little allergic to this idea that we shouldn’t worry about our... democracy because we need to talk about things that are a little more immediate. They go together. We should talk about all of them at once. The reason why you paid $1,000 more per household last year in tariffs is because we have a president who doesn’t think he’s accountable to the American people and didn’t think he had to follow the law. These things are connected.show more

Yeah see the problem with Buttigieg is that the Biden administration he worked for absolutely did the same exact thing with his full support because he is a dishonest hypocrite

The word DEMOCRACY is not mentioned once in our Country’s Constitution! Our Founders created a REPUBLIC.

The founders did not set up a democracy at all.

People act like democracy is some abstract debate… Meanwhile you literally paying more at the store cuz one guy thinks rules don’t apply to him. Strongmen always cost you more, not less. history already told us that. So why MAGA keep defending the dude raising their bills?

Founders didn’t set up a democracy at all. They set up a republic. HUGE difference

God, I love Pete so much. He just cuts through all the noise every time he speaks. He needs to be given the mic more and more.

Uh, don't make me tap the sign...

Democracy is 50% + 1 vote. We’re a Republic. The term ‘democracy’ does not occur in any of our founding documents - The Declaration, the Constitution or The Bill of Rights. DEI, which DOT Sec Buttigieg made $80B in grants to support while in office is not in these docs either. 🤡

He frames arguments in such a way that it feels like common sense. I happen to agree with him on this point - but even when I don’t, I tip my hat to his willingness to take his show on the road.

He should have stopped at “the founders didn’t set up a democracy”. Everything after that is BS. The founders hated democracy. For good reasons.

The Founders never set up a democracy, you cock-gargling degenerate. The word is never mentioned in the Constitution. Not once. Take your Marxist dogma back to whatever godforsaken rock you crawled out from under.

The founders didn’t set up “a democracy” at all. If you said that to them, they’d say democracy is a recipe for chaos. We are a Republic. He’s too proud of himself to learn the most basic stuff before spouting off whatever pops in his head. This guy should never have power.

We are a constitutional republic. Pete is an Ivy League moron with a low work ethic.

We are not a democracy we are a republic. Nothing like manipulation of our rights.

Mayor Pete is a hero. Not sure our country would go for a gay man (since they obviously can't stomach incredibly qualified women), but this is the kind of truth that might help us have a reset like Hungary. Somehow Orban was ousted. Thank god. Let's see it here - please!

We are a Republic! Buttigieg is a smart guy, Harvard, Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, but his policies are too far left. His only recognition is being openly gay, and former Transportation Secretary, where he dropped the ball in the handling of crises and transportation issues, such as delays in addressing airline disruptions and the East Palestine train derailment. Sorry, this is not our next leader!

The founder's setup a Republic which you Dems are trying to destroy. Ben Franklin's famous quote about the Republic comes from the Constitutional Convention in 1787. As he was leaving the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia after the final session, a woman in the crowd asked him: "Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?" Franklin replied: "A Republic, if you can keep it." This is one of the most cited warnings from the Founding Fathers about the fragility of republican government and the need for an informed, virtuous citizenry to preserve it. Democrats aren't virtuous and are working to destroy the Electoral College and therefore the Republic which will allow a few number of states to decide our future. 2026 elections are more important than ever because if Dems take the Congress, Dems can confirm the compact that blue states are making to overthrow our Republic. Dems don't care about you they care about power!!

When you say "too much power," I assume you mean spending a total of $88B on rural broadband and EV chargers, delivering zero rural broadband and 7 EV chargers, and not either being ridiculed for incompetence or being jailed for fraud? Yeah, that's "too much power."

They set up a constitutional republic- to prevent tyranny of any one person, the majority or the the government Pete… Sad they didn’t teach him that in the military or at Harvard

The founders considered a democracy mob rule and formed a Constitutional Republic.

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I can’t take him seriously when he talks about the founders, what the Dems have done to our rights especially our 2A rights our founders would’ve tarred and feathered every one of them.

If he had stopped at “the founders didn’t set up a democracy”, he would not have sounded like a typical progressive idiot trying to impose ideas that are so stupid they need to be mandatory.

Pete is in Ruby Red Oklahoma, and destroying MAGA on their own turf.

For some reason (probably indocturnation) Democrats keep declaring that the United States is a Democracy. I have doubts that the real form of Government (a Constitutional Republic) is even being taught in many schools courtesy of the left leaning school boards and teachers unions. Did anyone in the audience try to correct him?

That’s why the founders didn’t set up a democracy. They set up a constitutional republic and Democrats are for democracy as much as a rat

The president is not a king, but the republicans are treating Trump like one. This needs to stop immediately!

The founders didn’t set up a Democracy.

The Founders did not setup a democracy. The Founders feared a democracy. They spoke and wrote about the dangers of democracy. The Founders setup a representative republic

1) We are a constitutional republic,not a mere democracy. 2) 38 trillion debt,unchecked chronic health conditions, Bidenomics fallout & massive financial fraud/waste/abuse forced the business tactic, to save our country. 3) You knew that & just lied to false propagate Trump.

Point of fact... "The founders didn't set up a democracy..." You and Butthead can both stop there. They did NOT set up a democracy. Because a democracy is HOW one person gets too much power. They created a Republic. And in classic brain-dead prevarication, Butthead and you both continue to pretend otherwise.

You're correct... They set up a REPUBLIC 🤨 but we will never keep it with idiots like you consistently lying, gaslighting, and insisting that they set up a "democracy" which it is not.

Find a single place in the Constitution that refers to democracy. Any-fucking-where. I’ll wait Pete. Dumbass

The reason you arm is hurting so much right now is that the doctor is resetting your bone: it is painful in the moment, but you are much better in the long-term with a healed arm than a broken bone. Do you hate the doctor for doing his job? President Trump is resetting America's foreign policy and the nations economic standing among the nations of the world by threatening tariffs and then implementing them in negotiations. We have been in a bad position for a long time and needed a long-term fix. If you don't understand that, you do not understand why the founders set up a republic that limits powers. You are still thinking about the "academic interest" of arguing against the president's action without considering their purpose and practical effect. The president is doing everything within his power fulfill his accountability to the American people. Buttigieg is simply butt-hurt, or playing upon peoples fear and ignorance.