Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg warned that Democrats cannot return to the previous political status quo if they hope to counter President Donald Trump or rebuild public trust in government.
In an NPR interview aired July 28, Buttigieg said his party has been “slow to understand the changes in how people get their information” and urged Democrats to stop trying to restore outdated institutions without reform.
“Right now, you’ve got an administration that is burning down so many of the most important institutions that we have in this country, which is wrong,” Buttigieg said. “It is also wrong to imagine that we should have just kept everything going along the way it was. And I think that my party needs to do a better job of addressing the fundamental problems that have led people to mistrust everything.”…