Jack Butler of National Review Online assesses one high-profile Democrat’s unusual pronouncement.
Let’s check in on the Democrats:
Oh.
That’s newly installed Democratic National Committee Vice Chairman David Hogg, a progressive would-be wunderkind, calling for the return (?) of Biden Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and the replacement (?) of Elon Musk by him.
Okay.
Neither Donald Trump nor Buttigieg will take Hogg up on this strange recommendation. Trump, for obvious reasons. But Buttigieg, an overrated technocrat who recently carpetbagged his way from Indiana to Michigan, is busy weighing a run for Senate there. Previous reporting suggested he might run for governor.
For some reason, Democrats perceive the former mayor of Indiana’s fourth-largest city as one of their best political talents at the moment. Yet Buttigieg, too, has gone through the gauntlet of wokeness to which progressive activists have forcibly subjected nearly all current or aspiring Democratic officeholders in recent years.
Which is why Buttigieg gave the same assurance to the ACLU that Kamala Harris (remember her?) did during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary: that he supported taxpayer-funded medicalized gender transitions for federal inmates and illegal immigrants. …
… “I would direct my HHS Office of Civil Rights and Department of Justice to vigorously enforce all federal laws against discrimination based on gender identity, including ensuring the provision of all medically necessary care for transgender Americans. . . . This includes medical care for transgender individuals incarcerated in federal prisons and under immigration detention.”
Buttigieg was already going to have his work to remain politically viable cut out for him. Being tied to the same suite of progressive policies against which Americans are increasingly rebelling will make it even more difficult. And, according to Hogg and other Democrats, he is one of the party’s most promising prospects. Even worse for them: They might be right.
