Shadi and Damir start talking about the appeals and perils of Pete Buttigieg and end up discussing the dangerous dead ends of meritocratic right-think.

Reading List:
Shadi’s tweetstorm about Mayor Pete.

Luuk van Middelaar’s latest book.

“Lanes Are Starting to Emerge in the 2020 Primary,” Nathaniel Rakich (538)

“Anti-Solutionism as a Strategy,” Natan Sacks, (Foreign Affairs)

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