“an old person’s idea of what a young person should be like.”

…Buttigieg, whose support among African Americans nationally was, as recently as August, roughly 0% (and who had quite possibly leaked a memo putting that down to black people’s homophobia), had been promoting his “Douglass Plan for Black America” in materials that deceptively implied the endorsement of hundreds of black South Carolinians. All three of the prominent leaders named at the top of one press release (Intercept, 11/15/19) said they were misrepresented.

…The alleged “Buttigieg boom” may now be crumbling under the candidate’s stubborn opacity around his funders and great swaths of his career, as well as the entry into the field of fellow centrist Michael Bloomberg.

…Media have a practice of outsizing the attractiveness and viability of  centrist candidates, including shielding them from critical examination.

Mainstream media sees a puzzling obstacle to Pete Buttigieg’s rise: The voters | Salon.com

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