I’ve never seen this happen in a Buttigieg interview before. Patrick Bet David brings up Pete’s late father’s work translating Antonio Gramsci. Pete turns it around onto the American political right.

There is not a single high-profile person in the Democratic Party even approaching Pete’s intellect. We’d do well not to ignore or minimize that.

"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." ~Antonio Gramsci~ Quite Apropos.

@PeteButtigifs This is just standard-issue Pete, is it not? I’m surprised he didn’t quote Gramsci by heart in the original Italian, must have felt there wasn’t enough time.

Just imagine how much this man can give both party and the nation. It will be inexcusable if Dems don’t “use” Pete in full scale.

After the last 10 years imagine having a President that could speak like this

Pete always 10 steps ahead as usual

Pete is the gem of knowledge we all need. He brings facts and receipts.

Of course PBD is so deliciously unaware of himself that he thinks he can out-nerd Pete 😂

I'm just imagining the people who posted something like "Pete, you should really read Gramsci" or that he betrayed his fathers work listening to that. Looks like he studied this questions in a lot more depth than those on the left.

people only watch his short form content and forget hes probably had these arguments 100x when he was younger.

Pete is my favorite for 2028. I think he's basically the Obama of the gays. Ultra smart, well spoken, following up yet another shitshow in the middle east.

Professor Richard Wolff @profwolff talking about his work with Pete Buttigieg's Father, Joseph Buttigieg, on Gramsci Studies at Notre Dame and how Pete Buttigieg has purposely abandoned Left Ideology in 2019...

Jeez it's nice to hear someone speak in whole, coherent, sentences who has a thorough understanding of history.

Pete:

What many people miss about this discussion is that it's a tacit admission that the elitists in both political parties are focused on how best to manipulate both culture and politics to sustain their wealth, power and control. Politics is a means to an end...and the end is power.

Clip too short to make any heads or tails of what’s supposed to be interesting here. Needs more context.

Dems have some of the smartest people anywhere leading their front bench now. I'd put AES here too.

American's if you don't elect this very intelligent as your next president, your country will be missing out big time.

Gotta love PBD sitting there unable to meaningfully contribute because he doesn't know a damn thing about any of this and only knows about Gramsci because some other silly rightwing personality invoked him once in bad faith.

I love Pete, even though I am a heterosexual Russian. He is extremely bright!

@heartland_mvmt I'm half way through. Interesting BPDs family dynamic and immediately thought of Pete's dad

This hasn't been brought to his face, only online outrage, so I'm sure he knew it was coming.

what the fuck, pete's dad was a gramsci scholar???

Is there any historical subject that this man cannot dramatically and critically discuss and understand?? I think not.....

good convo to have. what a wasted convo to have with PBD.

By all logic Pete Buttigieg should be a front runner for President.

Pete is a once in a generation type.

he's so intelligent it's insane.

interviewer way out of his depth with his chat gpt response

You can be smart, but yet a terrible leader

Chris Rufo quite famously also had taken more than one leaf out of Rufo’s book.

This guy is brilliant holy hell 😭

@Timodc BUTTIGIEG 2028!!!

Yeah I’m definitely not aligned with Mussolini not these communist fucks Buttigieg and fucking gramsci

The whole grift about the Frankfurt School, which spawned the Rufio CRT/DEI spam worldview was fromguys that can't even read German or Italian. They don't even mention Benjamin because he doesn't fit into the schtick. Such a waste fo time.