Pete Buttigieg is building a secret weapon to help Democrats win upcoming elections

Like getting rid of Schumer, Pelosi and all the corrupt old guard?

> According to a close source, Buttigieg has spent half of 2026 on the road, hitting 10 states, five of them battlegrounds — no wonder he brought a helmet. > Buttigieg zeroed in on the current president’s success, cobbling together the disparate blocs of voters that unexpectedly sent him to the White House for a second term. > “It is really important that we understand what it means that this president stitched together this very unlikely crew that includes traditional Republicans, Libertarians, authoritarians, and white nationalists,” Buttigieg said. “We have to have a bigger, better, different coalition.” > Though he didn’t mention it, Buttigieg likely has in mind Barack Obama’s union of young people, Black and Latino voters, educated professionals, Independents, white working-class voters, and lot of LGBTQ+ people among them all, for a 2028 repeat, even as he listed many of the same issues that brought those voters together 20 years ago, despite their differences. > Democrats “should be able to build a supermajority coalition” based on the party’s platform, Buttigieg said, putting on his accountant’s visor to tick off the issues and numbers: paid family leave, a higher minimum wage, raising taxes on the wealthy, universal background checks, and what Buttigieg called a public health insurance option. > “If we can’t get those two-thirds supported positions over 50%, that means we’re missing something in terms of the coalition we built,” Buttigieg said, using that word again. The hardest part is that this is not something that can be calculated. There has to be a vision and the party’s leaders must persuade people to see their vision. Teddy Roosevelt had the Square Deal. FDR had the New Deal. LBJ had the Great Society. Reagan had the Mandate for Leadership. George W Bush had compassionate conservatism. You can’t retrofit a policy platform by finding out which positions are most popular and adding those to the platform and expect people to support it because it’s made up of popular positions. You have to understand **why** these positions are popular, effectively communicate your vision, and bring people over to your side. This becomes extremely difficult when 30%+ of the population lives in an alternate reality. But I don’t think it’s totally impossible. I think using pathos and appealing to our values is a way to short circuit ideological blinders. This country needs a political Great Awakening. I’m thankful to Buttigieg for the effort and energy, he’s a valuable member of the opposition 🫡

Is it denouncing Israel and pac money?

Let me guess, it's capitulating to centrists and blocking young progressives from gaining any representation.

does it shoot common sense?

The secret weapon is coalition building. You know, what Democrats have done, tried, or failed to do ever since the party's founding.

Is it a Death Star we can aim at this current administration?

The current head of the democrats, Ken Martin, has this very silly idea that the party will succeed in spite of it's shortcomings by being the party of everything for everybody. They want to appeal to the conservatives that got thrown out of the republican party by Trump and MAGA. This lead to a constant stream of fake democrats like John Fetterman running as progressives but just being republicans when in office. They've filled offices with these losers and they're going to drag down the party for the decade. They want to appeal to the left without supporting any leftist values or pushing progressive ideas. They've actually worked with Trump against figures like Mamdani and constantly work to hamstring them when they get offices. You have to work against the republicans and your own party to get even the most minor of concessions. They want to work with moderates and careerists like Schumer, Harris and Buttigieg who's only concern is keeping their jobs. No interest in fighting the republicans, no interest in pushing changes that would benefit their voters and doing everything to restore the pre-trump status quo that's never coming back. The result is a party that can do nothing for anybody. If anything it's helped Trump and the Republicans gain and keep power. The party needs to drop the old losers, get rid of the republican plants and get people who are actually going to fight for this country and it's people.

Traveling the country trying to get various types of non-right voters to give up their ideals and meet in some center coalition? Sounds like what every Democrat presidential candidate has been doing for decades.

Buttigieg Talarico Sanders AOC any combo of those would be f****** amazing for pres/vp

Wow, the comments here are amazing. I've read that conservatives are losing their minds over how badly Trump has destroyed the GOP. All they've got left is the keyboard troll army trying to divide Dems. It's laughably transparent.

Buttigieg as president would be incredible. I would proudly vote for him. He can actually formulate his thoughts into coherent sentences, which is important to me.

Is it a nuke? I hope it’s a nuke.

His secret weapon is to get black voter's support. He had 20-30% in 2020 compared to Joe Biden's 60-70%.

Let me guess, more “enlightened centrism”

*Secret weapon paid for by AIPAC

Unless he's building a Time Machine his electability isn't recovering

dumbledore’s secret weapon

Is it an exploding red hat?

Sometimes I wish Pete was more effeminate. Imagine going from the first black president, to an actual fascist monster, to President Ripp Taylor? It'd be glorious.

Dear Pete: Stop dancing around the edges of running for some kind of office and actually run for some kind of office. Once you do that, I'll start donating money to your cause again. Because right now, it's too vague of a mission for me to figure out what you're really up to. - Love, a Dem voter

It’s a Metal Gear

Democrats don't need a "secret weapon" to win in this environment. They just need to not f*** up.

Like going out into the woods with Shumer, Pelosi, H. Clinton and the rest of the incompetent losers?

He’s changing his sexuality to get the conservative votes.

This says it all for me: Unlike one of the candidates he was stumping for — Democrat Bob Brooks in Pennsylvania, who’s trying to unseat a MAGA Republican and is one of the new breed of “real guy” Democrats running for office this cycle (see Graham Platner in Maine) — former Mayor Pete is not a fan of Medicare for All.

People going to actually vote?

Buttigieg? The guy who had financial ties to the vote-counting software used in the primary election? The slimy guy who had a slimy job at a slimy firm lined up for him since he graduated? The guy who called the DNC the first night of the primary in 2020 because Bernie got more votes than him? He's a weasel. He's yet another donor-friendly centrist who will just demotivate people and refuse to do what is necessary and just.

The left lost to Trump twice. How about we change tactics.

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The middle of the country will never vote for Buttigieg. If they won't vote for a black woman, they won't vote for a gay person for President. The Dems will need a more middle of the road candidate in order to win the presidency.