When your appeal rests, in part, on having garnered the highest honors from the most venerable institutions of tradition, it’s hard to argue that you’re an agent of transformation. Buttigieg claims he will deliver something different, but he got the country’s ear in the first place through devotion to the same old, same old.

…Buttigieg hasn’t managed to convince many young Americans that he stands for anything other than ambition, with a stale side of duty, and until he does, those Americans will see in him the scariest thing of all: the hollowness of our own achievement culture staring back at us from the mirror.

Pete Buttigieg, millennials’ bane – The Washington Post

Well, that’s one take.