At the risk of incurring just a horrifying backlash, i have a few thoughts on Mayor Pete's "McKinley problem" that I've hesitated on sharing because of fear of the Twitter mob---but, you know what, F the mob.
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The "problem"--if we must call it that-- is both real and, obviously, overstated. It's real in that we absolutely should know this part of his bio. He's running for president. This is fair game. And I trust his aides know they need to push to disclose this stuff.
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It's also real in that he almost certainly worked on some project that involved "creating efficiencies" -- i.e. laying people off-- on behalf of a corporation. This is what consultancies do. And that's a problem, politically and culturally.
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It's overstated in one major respect though.
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While he made the choice to pursue this path, how responsible is he for the work product. He obviously has some responsibility. But a 27-yr-old doing analytical work for a client is not the same as, say, Mitt Romney's role at Bain. It's just not.
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"He was just 27" works better as an argument if he's a bit older than 37 years old! I mean at at age 27 Buttigieg had lived 72% of his life and more than 50% of his adult life. He doesn't have a lot of other stuff to balance it.
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Uhh...exactly?
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